"Like scrapping through the couch to get pennies to get money for bread.
A relieved Taylor again scraps through but he's under pressure almost constantly here.
This is what O'Neill did against the Mets' Armando Benitez in the ninth inning of Game 1 of the World Series last year, scrapping through a 10-pitch at-bat before drawing a walk, wearing down Benitez in the process.
Last summer, he stunned the crowds at the Beijing Games by scrapping through the early rounds and snatching the gold on his third attempt at a height of 19 feet 4 1/4 inches.
In 2001-02, he recorded more than 630 hours of interviews with journalist Heribert Schwan for a multivolume memoir project that was scrapped partway through.
But for reasons still unclear-likely a combination of band conflict and Wilson's crippling depression-this "teenage symphony to God" (as Wilson famously called it) was scrapped midway through, with lesser versions of its songs released pell-mell on increasingly frown-worthy Beach Boys records.
But Nadal scrapped and gesticulated through another rough patch — sometimes practicing his swings between points — and gathered strength from there.
The daughter of a skycap at Cleveland's old Hopkins Airport, Tubbs Jones scrapped her way through college and law school at Case Western Reserve and rose to become a Cuyahoga County judge and, later, chief prosecutor, the first African-American and the first woman elected to that post.
A year later, hundreds of thousands of additional gas guzzlers were sent to scrap yards through the government's cash-for-clunkers program.
