Word: scratchings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...almost imperceptibly, the merchants' movements assume a nervous, nearly furtive air. They start at the slightest sound--the clank of hoof on manhole, the raccous grate of a newly varnished sash, the quick scratch of a mongoose at a loose floorboard...
...truth imposes on any commonplace telling. Before the war, Frank Davison had run a small airport in Cheshire, England. He married Ann, a licensed pilot, soon after she went to work for him. The war put the Davisons' airport out of business, and they had to start from scratch at something new. As Ann tells it, the Davison saga was a succession of failures strung on a theme of hard luck. They tried gravel quarrying, farming, raising purebred goats. When Ann said, "You know, Frank, I could do with some real gut stirring," her husband said, "So could...
...East, churned the rich red clay into a lifeless desert. Huge huts sprang up, weird cylindrical towers rose against the horizon. The first horde of an eventual 47,000 workers poured in. Ellenton began to pull itself up by the roots. A town called New Ellenton was started from scratch twelve miles away. Most of Ellenton's Negroes moved there, loading their old shacks on giant gooseneck trailer trucks. But the village's white residents scattered-"the D.P.s of World War III," they call themselves. New Ellenton was too much of a boom town for their taste...
...declare his appetite, and the Crown Colony's 10,000 Britons, who live in a 391-sq. mi. territory with 2,000,000 Chinese in their midst, would be swallowed up almost overnight. Hong Kong's usual response to this has been to scratch Red China's back and to be as accommodating as possible to the Chinese within its gates...
...last week, fascinated by a running Page One story, Leeds Music Corp. set Tunesmiths Larry Clinton and Herb Hendler to work. Clinton & Hendler were held up a bit because of their uncertainty as to just how the story was going to turn out. But 48 hours from scratch, they had their song recorded (for King Records), and by next day Manhattan radio stations were booming it on the air. Chorus...