Word: scratching
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...roads and a million refugees alongside. Trucks and jeeps that broke down were not repaired -they were shoved off the road and burned. Said a reconnaissance pilot, looking down on the dreary spectacle of U.S. defeat and retreat: "This hurts. It hurts where I can't scratch...
...metal is then judged on rebounding quality and resonance. This kind of test is necessarily performed in the open, but some are more surreptitious especially those to check the durability of the finish. This calls for chipping off a small piece of the paint, or making a furtive scratch...
...skepticism, we think, is a healthy thing. It is that curious process of mind which makes a man blink at his environment, scratch his head, and try to figure out what is going on. There is considerable historical evidence that such a process may be a valuable one. Newton, for example, was raised in an environment which taught him that all objects had a proper place, and that if given a chance they would find that place. Newton watched a falling apple, skeptically refused to believe it was heading for its only true and rightful place, and developed a theory...
...countries. Air-raid signals will be the same in Canada and the U.S. Ambulances, fire engines, civil defense workers and doctors will travel freely from one country to another to render assistance after an enemy attack. Explained U.S. Civil Defense Boss Wadsworth: "We're going to scratch each other's backs in every way we know...
Testy old (71) Sir Thomas Beecham was in a mellow mood. With the 105 members of his Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, he had cleared the brambles of the U.S.'s new Security Act without a scratch, while German and Italian musicians were having a time of it. (Said Sir Thomas blandly: "We're all British, thank God.") There was a deeper reason for his satisfaction: he was set to face U.S. audiences with an orchestra of his own-an enterprise "I have undertaken in a becoming spirit of modesty and humility." In fact, beamed Sir Thomas, he had come...