Word: scratchings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...play has little action; it merely follows the four through one day in their lives and, in a series of conversations, lets then reveal to each other and to the audience just how wretched and hopeless they are. But as they continually scratch each other raw then draw back to apologize, the main thing that becomes clear is that none of them is really responsible for his actions. The father's miserliness is the result of an incredibly impoverished childhood, the mother's dope addiction is due to the stupidity of a quack doctor, and the sons' faults are blamed...
During the years that followed, many a former German in the land of General Bolle came to prefer his benevolent rule to that of the fatherland. But great nations must follow their own great destinies regardless of personal preferences, and last week, with the scratch of a pen in Brussels, the kingdom of General Bolle was signed out of existence...
Junior Pete Reider, running from scratch, covered the distance in 17 minutes, 11 seconds to break the record for the race, 18 minutes, 34.5 seconds, set in 1954 by Bill Morris...
...none was suspected before came from Manhattan's aged (81) Allergist Arthur Fernandez Coca. Sometime medical director of Lederle laboratories, Dr. Coca did not begin to treat patients until he was 65, soon found that many who had puzzling sensitivities did not react with the usual wheal to scratch tests with any of the common causes of allergy. To explain this, he postulated that the patients must have a concealed reaction marked by quickening of the heartbeat. He called this supposed condition idioblapsis (literally, self-produced harm), sought to confirm it by noting rises in the pulse rates...
...varsity will run the 3.7 mile riverside course which begins in front of Newell Boat House from scratch, while the Yardlings will have three to five minute handicaps. Others will receive handicaps at post time at the discretion of the handicap committee, cross country coach Bill McCurdy...