Word: scratch
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hours during the Thursday-morning countdown, however, the shuttle shuffle appeared destined for a scrub. All week NASA technicians had isolated small glitches, from a tiny gas leak on a main engine to a slight scratch on a thruster rocket. Finally they seemed confident that only bad weather might postpone the shuttle's launch. Although launch day dawned bright and sunny, meteorologists warned that the high-altitude winds in the shuttle's flight path, normally unruly in the Cape Canaveral region during late September, had uncharacteristically died down. The problem: Discovery's computers had been programmed to maneuver the craft...
...Mather House, grill manager Eric M. Call '89 relies on food specials to pull in the crowds. The Mather grill, which opened on September 26, offers homemade Wednesday night specials, such as Sicilian pizza and pizza rolls made from scratch...
...bronze in the 4 X 200 relay. Now, one more time, he set out to dominate the field in his specialty, the 200-meter butterfly. As always, he led easily for the first 150 meters. He faded in the last 50 -- this was new -- but he managed to scratch...
...trying to scratch our way into the 20th century," Allen says, adding that the computer allows cases to be simultaneously filed with the state and federal government, if they share jurisdiction...
...them to millions of titillated viewers. Recently, my employer said to me, "You'll find in the law profession, you don't always say what you believe." This was a lawyer speaking, one of those people who are supposed to fight for truth, justice, and the American way (actually, scratch the last term; after listening to all the campaign rhetoric, I'm not sure just what that phrase means anymore...