Word: scratchings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hickory got so mad he roared: "My name is Andrew Jackson, fresh from the backwoods, half-horse, half-alligator, a little touched with snapping turtle. I can wade the Mississippi, leap the Ohio, ride a streak of lightning, slip without a scratch down the honey locust, whip my weight in wildcats, hug a bear too close for comfort and eat anybody opposed to the COMMON MAN! Come on, boys, let's get Nicholas Biddle...
...riflemen could see them. Three brigadiers were wounded but Eichelberger, who insisted on wearing his general's stars within sight of the Japanese ("What's the use of being up here if the boys can't see who I am?'') came through without a scratch...
Mumbling about what happens to the "hypothalamic proclivities" when they are released through concussion from "the higher control of the cortex," the special ist began to draw the marks of the wound on a scratch pad. "A person in this state," he concluded, "may find ... his disability offers a convenient escape from responsibilities, you understand...
Worldwide Ferment. Some of the dazed publicity that last week followed the unveiling of the atomic bomb gave the impression that it was created from scratch, under the terrible urgency...
...housed Britons knew full well that the success of the Vigilante movement was only a scratch on the nationwide surface of the housing problem. In the next ten years, Britain will need five million new houses...