Word: scratchings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some American place names have a unique resonance about them-places like Maggie's Nipples, Wyo., or Greasy Creek, Ark., Lickskillet, Ky., or Scroungeout, Ala. Collectors of Americana also savor Braggadocio, Mo., the Humptulips River in Washington, Hen Scratch, Fla., Dead Irishman Gulch, S. Dak., Cut 'N Shoot, Texas, Helpmejack Creek, Ark., Bastard Peak, Wyo., Goon Dip Mountain, Ark., Tenstrike, Minn., Laughing Pig, Wyo., Two Teats, Calif., or Aswaguscawadic...
...very green team," Williams said yesterday. Last year we were very low. This season we have had to start from scratch...
...more than 12 million words, it is the first major Jewish encyclopedia in any language in 65 years. The work was begun during the early 1930s in Germany but became one of the first casualties of Hitler's 1933 book burning. In 1966 it was started over from scratch in Israel, this time in English. Bankrolled mainly by loans from the Israeli government and the U.S. Agency for International Development, the $5 million project utilized computer tapes and the brainpower of some 2,500 scholars to produce the encyclopedia in only 5½ years...
...then he might carry his entire party to victory. But Nixon has been doing almost no personal campaigning. Moreover, he and his staff have often denied party subalterns the money to work their own magic. While Nixon's Committee for the Re-Election of the President has to scratch its head to think of ways to spend its anticipated $45 million budget (bugging the Watergate was apparently one idea), the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee has only $3,800,000 to spread among 435 House candidates. Indeed, the C.R.P. has reached so deep into the pockets of big donors that...
Cardinal Wyszynski-whom Krol has invited to visit the U.S.-is still not happy with the building permits that he has been able to scratch up from the authorities for new churches. Only 37 are currently authorized, though some Polish parishes must run Masses all day long on Sundays to accommodate the crowds. An invitation to Pope Paul VI to visit Poland seems still some distance in the future, since it could embarrass the government by revealing the strength of Polish Catholicism...