Word: scratching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Rather, it is the Harvard men's baseball team that intends to use its version of Martin's "scratch and claw" offense this year...
...more spinach into the diet -- and, just as important, how to get kids to eat it. A batch of informational shows on the syndication market are drawing renewed attention. They include Beakman's World, a lighthearted science program featuring a frizzy-haired Mr. Wizard, currently seen on 225 stations; Scratch, a magazine-style show aimed at teens, airing on 110 stations; and Real News for Kids, a Turner Broadcasting production carried on 210. NBC has a new Saturday-morning entry in the field: Name Your Adventure, in which kids are given a chance to live out fantasies. The Children...
...scratch any aggressive tribalism, or nationalism, you usually find beneath its surface a religious core, some older binding energy of belief or superstition, previous to civic consciousness, previous almost to thought. Here is the paradox of God-love as a life-force, the deepest well of compassion, that is capable of transforming itself into a death-force, with the peculiar annihilating energies of belief. Faith, the sweetest refuge and consolation, may harden, by perverse miracle, into a sword -- or anyway into a club or a torch or an assault rifle. Religious hatreds tend to be merciless and absolute. The mystery...
...chances of "winning" in the Leverett House Dating service were about as good as on a scratch-off lottery ticket...
...rights. It also had to fight a devastating civil war before it could claim to be a fully representative democracy. For its part, Russia is trying to cast off, virtually overnight, the legacy of more than a thousand years of absolutism; and it is trying to create, virtually from scratch, the institutions, traditions and political culture associated with the rule of law and popular government. No wonder that this, more than any in years, is the winter of Russia's discontent...