Word: scratchings
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...Agent Orange's dark legacy. Yet there are grumblings that little - if anything - has been done to clean up the most contaminated sites. Since 2007, Congress has allocated a total of $6 million to help address Agent Orange issues in Vietnam. Not only does the amount not begin to scratch the surface of the problem or get rid of the tons of toxic soil around the nation, but there are questions about how the money is being spent. And several parties have noted with growing frustration that the money is primarily going to study the issue and hire consultants rather...
...much more personal side of Keats is revealed at the new Houghton display, which includes two of Keats’ original letters to Brawne. Even through a strong plexi-glass case and after 200 years, Keats’ cursive seems to stream off the page. Without a scratch or crossed-out word, his letters speak to a passionate and sometimes humorous rapport with his beloved, whom he often addressed as “My dearest girl.” Keats wrote in one letter, “If illness makes such an agreeable variety in the manner of your eyes...
...said. “Sometimes we’ll find things that will help us get better down the road down the stretch. But we didn’t come here to hang around. We came here to see if we could compete and to see if we could scratch...
...1950s felt for this dear and roguish man. We joined him every weekday for lunch. At the end of each show, he told us his menu for the next day so we could request the same. He called us his "little birdbaths" and warned us not to scratch our chicken pox. When he danced the Soupy Shuffle, he helped us forget about the looming threat of the Bomb. With his goofy antics, Soupy showed us we could still laugh and be carefree children...
...here are a lot of different styles of burlesque, even in Boston,” says Mr. Scratch, the stage name for the manager of the Boston Babydolls. “Some of them are more nostalgic and some of them take classic burlesque as a jumping off point for a modern audience...