Word: scraped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Germany. Drugs have been a nagging problem in the major cities. Sweden is a tightly structured society, and some Americans have found it as difficult to conform to the Scandinavian brand of red tape as to military life. Then, too, they are often disappointed to find they can only scrape up menial jobs. As one ex-serviceman growled in a television interview: "I didn't come to Sweden to wash dishes...
...There is nothing degrading about serving hungry people their food," she continued. "The job becomes degrading when you have to bow, scrape and kiss ass for a tip, and then there is still no guarantee...
...present time, the team owes money to everyone including the league. On several occasions Harvard has "walked" entry fees because it could not scrape up enough money...
...common image of the Justices as nine fiercely independent men has much truth in it, but tends to obscure a more important reality: that those same nine men must rub and scrape against one another, again and again, to come up with decisions that, ideally, at least five can agree on. In that process, one or two exceptional minds can make a considerable difference since the amount of cross-pollination is extensive. Every Friday during the term, the Justices closet themselves in a conference room and engage in what must be the most exciting weekly exchange of ideas...
...GOOD LIFE (NBC) and THE CHICAGO TEDDY BEARS (CBS) are the most annoying nitwits of the new situation travesties. In Good Life, a stockbroker and his wife (Larry Hagman and Donna Mills) check out of the bourgeoisie for the presumed comforts of becoming scrape-prone butler and cook to an anachronistic family of plutocrats (David Wayne and Hermione Baddeley). The plot smacks of those 1930s films that had fun with the Depression. Teddy Bears attempts to cash in on the nostalgia binge for the by-now-boring '20s, playing the gangland speakeasy scene for slapstick laughs. An apter title...