Word: scrape
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dreadful, though never mutually acknowledged, duel began. As Effie came to see it, Ruskin was bent on forcing her to leave him not merely by his neglect but by throwing her at various gentlemen friends, including Millais, hoping to involve her in what she quaintly referred to as a "scrape." She, on her part, meticulously maintained a spotless reputation. For years she had not dared to tell anyone that she was, in the euphemism of the age, a wife in name only. Eventually she understood that in abstinence lay salvation, via a virtuous annulment. Where once she had wanted Ruskin...
...development. Both were born to families of modest means in small towns 55 years ago, Rogers in Norfolk, N.Y., where his father was a cashier in a paper mill. Both boys went to work early, Rogers at age 14 as a photographer's assistant. They had to scrape for their education: scholarships, some help from his family and income from an assortment of jobs (dishwasher, waiter, door-to-door salesman of brushes) got Rogers through college at Colgate and law school at Cornell. Both excelled as law students. They each married relatively young, Rogers to Adele Langston,* a classmate...
...Jamaica Plain, outside Boston, is a very different kind of museum. It has no collections behind glass, no bored guards, no admonitions to be quiet or keep hands off. In fact, the staff is frankly put out when a child is reluctant to try on an Indian sari, scrape the stretched deerhide with an Algonquin stone tool, or try on the Boston Celtics' Tom Sanders' size 17 basketball shoes...
...Roses. This highly successful film version shows why it was both a popular and a critical success on Broadway and why it went on to win the 1965 Pulitzer Prize. Though Gilroy's craftsmanship is maladroit, he has a musician's ear for the lilt and scrape of Irish-American dialogue, and an unblinking eye that sees his characters whole, in the light of common...
...Czechoslovaks responded, out of hope-or hopelessness. In Prague, students who only days before had taunted the Soviet soldiers and set fire to their tanks now dispersed at the first sign of a Red Army uniform. Shopkeepers used razor blades to scrape political slogans off their store windows. The free radio stations either went silent or dropped the word free from their names. The underground newspapers stopped publishing anything controversial (see following story). At the same time, the apparatus of repression fell swiftly into place, and the arrests of members of the underground, of liberal writers and artists, began...