The 541 occurrences of scrap
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You'll get all the scrapping you want with Hovercraft.
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They'd have to scrap all their existing plant and turn their factories inside out, and in the end they wouldn't make any more profit than they're making now.
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But no barehanded scrapping, like ladies at a tea-party, for me."
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Aren't you satisfied with tying up the Sophomores once without scrapping the whole year through?"
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"What do you know about our wanting to scrap?"
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"Here's a man who has done nearly as much single-handed as the rest of us put together and fought through as stiff a Fleet action as the hungriest fire-eater in the navy wants to see, and tells you he isn't injured, while half of us are knocked to scrap-iron.
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"Well, Louis and a man called Tom Marling got some liquor aboard that day, and started scrapping, Marling saying that Louis must be a crook or he wouldn't steal another man's house.
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Have you two been scrapping?"
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Maybe it's because sidewalks are uncomfortable for fighting, but we just don't do much scrapping for fun.
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The solution was, of course, to forget one's past work, to scrap the models, and to start feverishly afresh.
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From the rear of a line of scrapping, frantic mail orderlies, each one trying to corner all the packages marked "Tobacco" and "Chocolate" for his particular outfit, the reporter, by standing on a box marked "Fragile--This Side Up," was able to see the scene depicted above, and to hear, above the din, the Postal Clerk's momentous decisions.
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At this stage of her naval development, and on the eve of a life-and-death struggle, Japan had no idea of "scrapping" even the older ships.
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"They're scrapping about whether there is any wind," Charley explained.
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At any rate, we took Martha to everything that came along, one of us or another, and before a month we didn't have to pretend very much to scrap for her dances, even if you did have to lug her around the room by main strength--she was as heavy on her feet as a motor-bus.
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Frankling, son of the locomotive works, authority on speckled vests and cotillons, was scrapping with Ole Skjarsen, the cuffless wonder from the lumber camps, for the affections of the prettiest girl in college.
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And there won't be any more scrapping all winter.
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He has no fixed beliefs about methods of study; he himself learns by doing, and to-morrow will be cheerfully willing to scrap the method he is using to-day.
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At the same time they're good scrapping players, and they're out for every point that belongs to them.
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As near's I can see, we've each got a mighty good excuse to scrap, and we can do a whole lot of damage once we start.
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The blunt soldier, the old sea-dog type of naval officer, is endurable and even lovable in the eyes of most other people, when he has done his scrapping with fire rather than firewater, when his personal credentials are sound, and when his outward manner is bluff in both meanings of the word.
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"Which is Jeffries?" asked Uncle Ike, as he filled his pipe, and looked over the two companions who had been scrapping.
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"He bangs so hard they all quits their scrapping and begins to take notice.
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Marshall's Horse, a Colonial corps of whom we saw a good deal, had gone out on a reconnaissance in the morning, and had some scrapping with the enemy's patrols, &c. But now word suddenly came that they were surrounded, and in a tight corner.
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It was the same in so many of our days of scrapping and trekking.
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As far as fighting went this long-range scrapping was not of course worthy of the name, but as far as discomfort and fatigue were concerned, the operations were entitled to the most dignified and resonant title in the vocabulary.
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Whether it was good or bad luck, good or bad scouting, whatever it was, the fact remained that with the exception of the almost daily scrapping and sniping, which constant use had made to appear as part of the day's work, no action of any importance came our way in spite of the countless marches and counter-marches we made to bring one on.
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His book published by William Morrow Company, Right in the Old Gazoo: A Lifetime of Scrapping with the Press (1997), chronicles his personal experiences and views of the Fourth Estate.
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The old man had a consul of War to night, so if we have to scrap, we will have to cut a lively gate for them.
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No, Bunje, don't start scrapping--it's too early in the morning, and we'll wake... those... poor devils----Eugh!
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I don't want to start scrapping in a strange mess, Snatcher, but if you really _are_ looking for trouble----!"
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They're good 'uns to scrap."
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It is not in the best of form to scrap in a strange mess, except by express invitation.
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I'd like to inform Miss Eileen that the party who got that little article we were all scrapping for to-night, jumped into her car when he got to the road, tore like mad in it to the station, left it there, and caught the express for New York.
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Seeing they could not get away, the men were actually ready to fight, and I think had we been rookies we might have had to scrap for it; but seeing an officer they saluted and sullenly submitted.
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Used to go to school together, and we were always scrapping.
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"I gave each of you girls exactly the same thing," he said, "because I didn't want you scrapping over me.
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You'll get all the scrapping you can handle when we get away from here.
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Standish saw me scrapping with Green the other night and sent for me afterwards and told me to get fit.
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We may draw each other--anyhow we shall have to scrap if we get into the semi-finals.
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Knock off scrapping, you three hooligans."
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... No, don't start scrapping, Matt; I've just put on a clean collar ... and it's got to last.... All right--_pax_, then."
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Knock off scrapping, Bosh and Matt, or you'll be all adrift."
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I knew she'd ben scrappin' with you, or else that you'd turned around and ben sweet on Miss Edna."
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And, look here, if we get to scrapping Horace will hear us and then you won't get away in any case.
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And it was only when two wolves got at a hyena, or two hyenas got at a wolf that there was any real scrapping.
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"Now, the tiger and the lion were having it out forward of the house; the wolves and the hyenas were scrapping, as they could, two against one; the python and the cobra were trying to swallow each other, and the asses and zebras were kicking the ribs out of each other.
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What in Sam Hill's the use of scrapping over a game for fun?"
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You see, when I got out into the hall, Pedro, that's one of Dad's pet servants, was scrapping with two pirate-looking fellows at the head of the stairs.
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They were for ever scrapping there, and at nights never for a moment rested.
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He had served in the Florida and the Mexican wars, and he also had been in much scrapping with hostile Indians in the vicinity of the Pacific Coast.
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That was scrapping; no hall full of tobacco-smoke, no palm-fans, lemonade, peanuts and pop-corn; just right out on the turf, and may the best man win.
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That will be something like it, seeing new country instead of scrapping with fair managers about money.
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It will mean scrapping your best tablecloth, mein herr.
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But in little ways, an' because it was secunt nature, just helpin', helpin', helpin' ... Mis' Holcomb-that-was-Mame-Bliss, Liddy Ember, Abagail Arnold an' her husband, that was alive then, hurryin' to open the home bakery to catch the funeral trade on the funeral's way back, Amanda an' Timothy Toplady rattlin' by in the wagon an' 'most likely scrappin' over the new springs ... an' all of 'em salt good at heart.
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To begin wid, ye only had wan chanct in eight to be taken in the draft, but wid the doctors ye're _shure_ to see scrappin'!
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If you two get to scrapping the whole business will go blooey.
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Following Kuwait's liberation, the UN Security Council (UNSC) required Iraq to scrap all weapons of mass destruction and long-range missiles and to allow UN verification inspections.
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Following Kuwait's liberation, the UN Security Council (UNSC) required Iraq to scrap all weapons of mass destruction and long-range missiles and to allow UN verification inspections.
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"Meant it friendly," said the swart man, recalling [280] the scene; "but-in front of that blarsted Whitey and his snigger-Well-I 'ad to scrap."
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"Fact is, you done know 'ow to scrap.
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"Lemme show you 'ow to scrap.
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"If you don't get learnt scrapping you'll get killed,-don't you make no bones of that."
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"The chaps are always scrapping," said the swart man.
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"Look see!" he said: "are you going to let me show you 'ow to scrap?"
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Blunt, the swart artist in scrapping, having first let [288] Denton grasp the bearing of his lesson, intervened, not without a certain quality of patronage.
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"Can't you see 'e don't know 'ow to scrap?"
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"If it isn't too late ..." That night, after the second spell, Denton went with Blunt to certain waste and slime-soaked vaults under the Port of London, to learn the first beginnings of the high art of scrapping as it had been perfected in the great world of the underways: how to hit or kick a man so as to hurt him excruciatingly or make him violently sick, how to hit or kick "vital," how to use glass in one's garments as a club and to spread red ruin with various domestic implements, how to anticipate and demolish your adversary's intentions in other directions; all the pleasant devices, in fact, that had grown up among the disinherited of the great cities of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, were spread out by a gifted exponent for Denton's [289] learning.
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He knew nothing of the scrapping lessons, and he spent the time in telling Denton and the vault generally of certain disagreeable proceedings he had in mind.
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"You ain't scrapping again," he said, "are you?"
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"Quit your scrapping," admonished Herb.
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"We'd better save our scrapping for Buck Looker and his friends," said Bob.
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"I'm too hungry to think of scrapping, and I'll bet Jimmy is too.
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Following Kuwait's liberation, the UN Security Council (UNSC) required Iraq to scrap all weapons of mass destruction and long-range missiles and to allow UN verification inspections.
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Following Kuwait's liberation, the UN Security Council (UNSC) required Iraq to scrap all weapons of mass destruction and long-range missiles and to allow UN verification inspections.
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Following Kuwait's liberation, the UN Security Council (UNSC) required Iraq to scrap all weapons of mass destruction and long-range missiles and to allow UN verification inspections.
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Following Kuwait's liberation, the UN Security Council (UNSC) required Iraq to scrap all weapons of mass destruction and long-range missiles and to allow UN verification inspections.
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Following Kuwait's liberation, the UN Security Council (UNSC) required Iraq to scrap all weapons of mass destruction and long-range missiles and to allow UN verification inspections.
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Following Kuwait's liberation, the UN Security Council (UNSC) required Iraq to scrap all weapons of mass destruction and long-range missiles and to allow UN verification inspections.
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Following Kuwait's liberation, the UN Security Council (UNSC) required Iraq to scrap all weapons of mass destruction and long-range missiles and to allow UN verification inspections.
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Following Kuwait's liberation, the UN Security Council (UNSC) required Iraq to scrap all weapons of mass destruction and long-range missiles and to allow UN verification inspections.
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Couldn't afford to be groggy because the committee was all set up to scrap out something that was splitting the colony right down the middle.
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Following Kuwait's liberation, the UN Security Council (UNSC) required Iraq to scrap all weapons of mass destruction and long-range missiles and to allow UN verification inspections.
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Following Kuwait's liberation, the UN Security Council (UNSC) required Iraq to scrap all weapons of mass destruction and long-range missiles and to allow UN verification inspections.
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I didn't know he was there till his dog and Joe started scrapping, and then he ran up to separate them.
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About a couple of miles out we heard guns, and I thought probably we should have a bit of scrapping, but we did not beyond some half-hearted sniping.
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_I hope they'll a' dee o' pneumonia._"] On Sunday (November 11th) we had some lively scrapping at the commencement of our march, which was towards Krugersdorp.
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We reached here at noon; the Dorsets and Devons who formed the rearguard had a bit of scrapping, and, thanks to a straggling convoy, did not get into camp till close on midnight, and so, of course, got a rare soaking from the usual rain.
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The next day the Adjutant advised him to scrap the lot.
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"Scrapping" came naturally to the alley.
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No scrappin' on the public thoroughfares o' Tinkletown.
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"Oh, your lumbago got to scrapping with your liver.
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You see, we have five churches, when we really need only one; and so we have to scrap for each other's converts, to keep up the interest.
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"We sure think you're white this time, Paul Morrison, an' I ain't a-goin' to hold back in sayin' so either, just 'cause we've been scrappin' with your crowd right along.
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But the Government knew that what one Indian had, the rest ought to have or there would be scrapping over it sooner or later, sure as shooting.
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Horace was in a very bad humor, and as usual indulged himself in a number of foolish threats, the least of which was to scrap the whole machine.
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"I don't want any greasers scrapping round here to-night.
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"No-o; reckon I pick my own people to scrap."
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We've got to do some tall figuring and some swift scrapping before we're through."
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And the shades of evening will thicken, and they will sing louder and louder, as night draws on, to check their rising sensations of cold and hunger and fear, while the chauffeur swiftly and firmly reduces the car to scrap-iron.