Word: scratchings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although the creation of the school from scratch would cost $85 million, the use of existing facilities will result in a price tag of only $30 million, some of which has already been pledged, Mayer said...
...three inches, which was three inches more than the New York Times gave it. And The Washington Post ran a small piece on it in their Local News/Obituaries/Classified section; that same day, the Post's leading story was about black suburbanites learning the joys of cultural assimilation. Go on: scratch your head; it hasn't quite sunk...
...perhaps. To pretend to be an orphan, alone, is a form of narcissism. I suppose all children have this disgusting form of self-pity; but more so the artist, who is Robinson Crusoe. He must invent his stories, his pleasures; he succeeds in reconstructing a parody of civilization from scratch. He makes himself by education, by survival, by constantly paying attention to himself, but also by creating a world around himself that hadn't existed before. The corollary of this is the desire not to end childhood. Which in turn makes for a desire not to stop growing...
Wollaston is the type of course that makes scratch golfers quake at address. It boasts the highest rating of any course in Massachusetts, as it sports 11 water holes and requires pinpoint driving to hit the hourglass fairways...
There were but three hits all game for the batsmen, all of them of the scratch variety. Rick Pearce beat out grounders to McDonald in the fifth and third baseman Doug Juiffre in the ninth, while St. John bisected the two with a seeing-eye job in the seventh...