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Evidence of the Armillaria gallica fungus on a scrap of wood.
I'm trying to scribble something down on a scrap of paper.
Just three words, scrawled on a scrap of paper: I get enough.
Others just go with a candidate's name on a scrap of paper.
A shitty drawing on a scrap of paper is suddenly worth $30,000.
I wrote down my name and number on a scrap of paper.
He took out his wallet and handed me a scrap of paper.
Juice WRLD was handed a pen and a scrap of yellow paper.
There was a scrap of newspaper on the sidewalk, torn from The Times.
It displayed a scrap of purple knitting, needle still stuck in the top.
Not a scrap of experience from the corporate world has prepared you for this.
Every now and then she'd note a scrap of plastic as she swam through.
Buckets of slop sit outside every house -- not a scrap of water is wasted here.
One is a dim image of cosmological creatures sketched on a scrap of tomb fresco.
I still have a scrap of pink paper with "inflagranti" and "negližé" written on it.
A scrap of inauthentic evidence could be poison for the truth of the Holocaust's occurrence.
Near Ratchett's body, Poirot uncovers a scrap of paper that mentions a girl named Daisy Armstrong.
He reached back into his pocket and felt a scrap of paper, a Soylent label actually.
Did she scrawl the number "10" on a scrap of paper and toss it onto the bar?
They are doing more to raise breast cancer awareness than a scrap of pink ribbon could do.
He hoped the Philippines would view the ruling as a "scrap of paper" so bilateral negotiations could resume.
He wrote a scrap of an African fantasy story, set in a world ruled by eight evil spirits.
He nodded and scribbled the word down in English on a scrap of paper for Kawakubo to read.
He plucked a scrap of raw chicken and added it to a bag of other pieces — tonight's dinner.
Nothing, not a scrap of fur, though the road seemed to hum, alert as skin to the touch.
"Beggar," like another woodcut of the same title, portrays a destitute woman asking for a scrap of bread.
None of it should make a scrap of sense — yet somehow it works within its own strange, singular genre.
He spotted a scrap of human food and lurched toward it, sending a loaded plate smashing to the floor.
In late winter of 1975, a scrap of paper started appearing on bulletin boards around the San Francisco Peninsula.
The most frustrating thing was that it just didn't feel like what I was doing made a scrap of difference.
But before we turned to go, he wrote something on a scrap of paper and pushed it across the counter.
Not a scrap of it was ruined in the waters that flooded 80 percent of the city after the storm.
Trump got out of a *limo* and boarded the *presidential aircraft* with a scrap of tissue flapping from his left foot.
At the corner of Fortieth and Florance, there was a scrap of crime-scene tape, from an incident the week before.
I followed his advice straightaway, writing that exchange down on a scrap of paper, which I still have to this day.
He's still making trompe-l'oeil ceramic replicas of everyday objects, from a scrap of corrugated cardboard to a clamshell takeout container.
Meantime, Gastelum is prepping for a scrap of his own -- dude takes on Ronaldo Souza at UFC 224 next weekend in Brazil!
After sunset on the famed Maracana on Monday night, two local women put out some cat food on a scrap of cardboard.
Then plans were mapped out on a scrap of paper and given to a friend who translated it all onto Adobe Illustrator.
In an interview, Mr. Pascucci emphasized the efficiency of Concord Bicycle's operation, drawing an elaborate organizational chart on a scrap of paper.
The only major lead -- a scrap of the bag that led authorities to a defunct bakery in New Jersey -- did not pan out.
Everybody jots down something nice about his or her family on a scrap of paper and hands it to a next-door neighbor.
I'm not gonna bet my son's life, but I'll bet a lot of money that there's not a scrap of LM-14 left.
At some point during the monologue Johnson scrawled a few words on a scrap of paper and sent it out to his secretary.
Child-size graves were mounded alongside every forest path I walked, with a scrap of cloth or broken toy on top of each.
On a scrap of paper were $10 worth of commissary items: two bags of tortilla chips, a toothbrush and a box of laundry soap.
Ten years ago, the idea of obtaining even a scrap of DNA from a man who died in the Renaissance would have sounded absurd.
Once in the warehouse, the woman navigates them toward a specific box from a number and letter combination scrawled on a scrap of paper.
The 210-year-old was handed a scrap of paper with the name Liverpool Women's Hospital scrawled across it and sent on her way.
"Monster made of men," are the words District 9 director Neill Blomkamp wrote on a scrap of paper when conceiving his forthcoming film Zygote.
The network somehow was able to sit down with Warren and her husband in their home and not make a scrap of useful news.
He began by fashioning a scrap of missile shrapnel into a stencil, and then spray-painted a cloud of butterflies onto a surviving wall.
Using a red crayon on a scrap of paper, he sketched out the four characters in the logo that would be seen around the world.
Shannon learned to look at a scrap of steel under a microscope in the factory's laboratory, to make sure the heat had done its work.
You may protest that the things in which this information is stored — photos, the location of clothing, a scrap of paper — are not very mindlike.
Her colleague said the only thing we could do was call a phone number, which she pushed across the desk on a scrap of paper.
There are no tickets, openings, or reservations, and the staff gives a scrap of golden fabric to every visitor as a memento of the transient structure.
In 2010, researchers working in the Siberian cave, called Denisova, announced they had found DNA from a scrap of bone representing an unknown group of humans.
And as the opponent pivoted towards center, searching desperately for a scrap of empty space, Sonny would flatten them like a freight train hitting a stalled car.
It had been a way of getting out of the room while leaving Quichotte with a scrap of self-respect and the sense of still being needed.
Alone on the damply cobbled streets, wrapped in Wyatt Garfield's sensual cinematography, he seems no more than a scrap of a person, as insubstantial as infatuation itself.
She frees the tangled rudder, rigs a stub of mast with a scrap of sail, patches a hole in the hull and pumps water from the cabin.
" Assistant Secretary of War John J. McCloy shrugged off questions about the legality of the situation, writing "the Constitution is just a scrap of paper to me.
There's also a degree of usability I've come to expect from some of my favorite make-work games, and Yonder doesn't have even a scrap of it.
For a scrap of fabric worn by a tiny, tiny proportion of British women, the face veil has attracted a disproportionate amount of attention over the years.
Most of the boats carried equipment and signs written in Korean, and one was had a scrap of cloth resembling a torn bit of the North Korean flag.
Boubacar Sidiki Samake said that a scrap of paper with an Arabic inscription was found on the bodies of the two men, later killed by Malian Special Forces.
For her first recording session with Juan Shipp and the Gospel Souls, King fleshed out a scrap of melody that she'd heard her mother sing back in Charleston.
Let the ritual of F begin: His upper teeth on his lower lip as he tried to blow a scrap of paper off the back of his hand.
To end the oil embargo, Henry Kissinger persuaded Israel to withdraw from a scrap of Syrian territory; in 2001 George W. Bush pledged his support for a Palestinian state.
Her clear, honey-sweet voice twangs earnestly, resolutely, and without a scrap of hesitation—because even at age 84, the coal miner's daughter is still a force of nature.
He asks me to pick a number between 1 and 10 and write it on a scrap of paper before I sit down in front of the EyeDetect camera.
On CNN, there was Kayleigh McEnany, asserting that even if former President Obama didn't wiretap Trump, "something suspicious was going on," even though there wasn't a scrap of proof.
Thus, we get not only snatches of Aspern's verse (purloined from Shelley, with a scrap of Keats thrown in) but also, at regular intervals, flashbacks to his scandalous life.
Trying to find a scrap of paper and pen to leave a note can be annoying, especially when you're about to walk out the door Enter: digital sticky notes.
To show just how hot the Blanda Blank's surface could get, Walter posted a video in which he burns a scrap of paper using no matches—just the bowl itself.
Kornegay's painting of what appears to be a member of a celestial choir employs a stripped-down palette of black, blue, red, and white on a scrap of corrugated metal.
There isn't a scrap of curtain, not a blade of blind, in number 212—the rust-red townhome that once housed the newlywed Motts, until recently, until they un-wed.
Really every gift we give them — whether a scrap of food under the table or a new toy — is kind of for us as much as it is for them.
You then wrote the same number on a scrap of paper, pinned it to the corpse's chest, and covered them up to the neck with one of the white cloths.
No sooner had they stated that 2006m people voted on October 249st than they started claiming that police had "stolen 22006,20113 votes", for which there is not a scrap of evidence.
In return each receives a number, handwritten on a scrap of paper, and is told to return in several weeks and start checking to see if that number is coming up.
I remember being astonished by the chutzpah of Michael Chabon's premise for "The Yiddish Policemen's Union" (2007): the endangered Jews of Europe being handed a scrap of Alaska instead of Palestine.
A scrap of insight about a coming change in government policy can be as precious as any market data, potentially making the difference between a profit or loss on a trade.
I interviewed him first when I was newly divorced, with two kids, no job, very little money and a scrap of an idea that I could make it as a freelance writer.
The most fun performances to watch are the ones by performers who sink their teeth into the silliness of the premise, and go big and bold without a scrap of self-consciousness.
A scrap of first kiss drifted, ripped and sodden, into a pile on the right; a ribbon of kyber crystals floated to the pile on the left, pressed and preserved for further examination.
The gameplay loop starts out simple: you board the ship and find evidence of carnage—a scrap of bloodied cloth, a skull, a cow skull—and use the pocket watch to enter a memory.
Shin Shin and her partner, Ri Ri, arrived from China in February 2011 and went on view soon after the following month's devastating earthquake, offering a scrap of good news for an anguished nation.
Bottom line: It's never selfish to wring a scrap of happiness out of this garbage world, no matter how that looks — solo or surrounded by a personal mafia made up entirely of mini-yous.
When it comes to NBC's emotional family drama This Is Us, every piece of news is a clue, a scrap of information that we can use to patch together the future of this labyrinthine soap.
"Puppy dog eyes" — the pleading look a dog gives by lifting its inner brow and widening its eyes — has become synonymous with a sad pup hoping for a scrap of food off its owner's plate.
"I'm being handed a sheet with the word 'guilty' on it five times," the Fox News correspondent Peter Doocy said, waving a scrap of paper as he relayed the early word of Mr. Manafort's verdict.
What stayed with this observer was not the easy reversible Windbreakers Ms. Nichanian designed for junior oligarchs to wear aboard their Embraer Phenom 100s, but a scrap of found poetry discovered in the show notes.
"Untitled (Radio)," the largest surviving painting by Traylor, has his favored electric blue paint highlighting the interior of another house, while "Untitled (Dog Fight with Writing)" has sharp-toothed canines with a scrap of Traylor's handwriting.
If there is a scrap of hope to be gleaned from President Trump's obvious misdirection this week, it is that Trump has veiled his attack on his own FBI director in the language of bipartisan constitutionalism.
I clambered out of the pool and, chanting the spelling of one woman's name so I would remember it, begged a scrap of used napkin and a pen from the lifeguard so I could take notes.
Along the way, his I ♥ NY logo, first drawn on a scrap of paper in the back of taxi, has declared that love in a nearly universal language, understood in every corner of the planet.
When he writes "Blinky Palermo" in white paint on a scrap of wood and affixes it to the front of a moody abstract painting, the browns and the dark and pale greens obliquely evoke the German artist.
The Oakland Alameda Coliseum, home of the Oakland A's, announced Wednesday it will be serving up a twist on a ballpark classic that may be surprising to fans: a cheeseburger that doesn't use a scrap of beef.
Standing next to him, I could see his long fingers with their elegantly squared-off nails folding and unfolding a scrap of paper, but when Weinberg walked over to offer him the mike he shook his head.
In the wake of the derailment of Amtrak 188, a new wrought-metal fence went up near Frankford Junction, but at the time, access to the tracks was as simple as lifting a scrap of chain-link fence.
But, three years on, the process is struggling in a country where land sales have long been subject to traditional customs, contracts are often scribbled on a scrap of paper, if anywhere, and property boundaries are rarely formalized.
FROM THE top of the KSDP radio tower, 200 feet in the air, station manager Austin Roof could see nearly all of Popof Island, a scrap of tundra surrounded by sea at the base of the Aleutian chain.
Lea came up with the lyrics to "Merry Xmas Everybody" during a 20083-minute shower, then passed the song onto Holder and recommended that he use a scrap of a chorus he'd demoed to the band in 1967.
Image: Universal PicturesIn the 1993 cult classic Jurassic Park, a T. rex manages to scare the living shit out of kid heroes Lex and Tim Murphy by casually ripping apart their Ford Explorer like it's a scrap of meat.
The details are still open to debate, with Trump claiming he has a secret deal on a scrap of paper, but the spoken understanding is that Mexican officials will boost efforts to reduce the number of people heading north.
Last year, a heated exchange between Israel and Iran dominated the conference, as Israel's prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, displayed a scrap of metal that he said was part of an Iranian drone that his country's forces had shot down.
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian consumer confidence rebounded from a two-year low in August as people became more upbeat on the economy and the housing market, according to one measure, offering a scrap of hope for the hard-pressed retail sector.
As he told me this, he sketched an agitated diagram on a scrap of paper, the rectangle of the car body, with an X in the back corner for him, an X in the opposite front corner for the driver.
She was a renegade goddess, lithe and almost impossibly graceful, just tomboyish enough, careless about her beauty as only a true beauty can be, her hair tied loosely with a scrap of ribbon, prone to airy dresses from the Salvation Army.
From the moment that Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque undertook the revolutionary gesture of adding a rectangle of floral wallpaper, a newspaper headline or a scrap of sheet music to their compositions, they initiated an immediate and fundamental shift in European art.
At dispute is a scrap of land in Ayodhya, a sleepy temple town in northern India that is a holy site for the nation's two biggest religions, and emblematic of an increasingly contentious fight over land claimed by temples and other religious entities.
Laughlin will sometimes scribble the time of a possession on a scrap of paper and have a member of the training staff deliver it to Rubin and Kerr, who will download it onto an iPad and have it sent to the bench.
The judiciary source said investigators who raided Rajraji's house had found on a scrap of paper the email address of Fabien Clain, the man who recorded Islamic State's claim of responsibility for the attacks on Paris in November that killed 130 people.
As soon as a scrap of news hits Twitter, thousands upon thousands of users across multiple platforms swarm to synthesize it with other, unrelated scraps—even if fusing them into a coherent narrative requires logical backflips and manufacturing some data points of their own.
With no concrete progress to report, media representatives at the talks venue in ex-Soviet Kazakhstan, were so hungry for a scrap of news that at one point a crowd formed around an Arabic speaker who they thought was a participant in the talks.
After all, as the subtitle suggests, it grapples not merely with the dead but with how, for decades, the normalized bigotry of the 1960s that killed so many innocent Americans went largely unpunished, in turn haunting those desperate for even a scrap of justice.
From his studies of laboratories, Latour had seen how an apparently weak and isolated item — a scientific instrument, a scrap of paper, a photograph, a bacterial culture — could acquire enormous power because of the complicated network of other items, known as actors, that were mobilized around it.
The first rimjob I ever gave, I paused to pick a little something off my tongue, and it was a scrap of toilet paper, which just made the thing far too visceral, a reminder that my tongue was doing something he had done with toilet paper not long ago.
In fact, they can be laid low by something as insignificant as a broken bolt or a can of soda — which, when resting against the third rail, might heat up and ignite a scrap of newspaper, causing a track fire, the source of hundreds of delays every month.
Cavazos uses a wheelchair now, but he told me when he was a boy, he would visit the river with his father, who showed him how to fish for catfish and bass, digging out a wet spot to gather worms and cutting off a scrap of bamboo to make a rod.
It's a far cry from one of television's very first sympathetic introductions to gay fatherhood, 1972's That Certain Summer, whose crescendo involves a divorced dad (Hal Holbrook), who is now in a newly-outed longtime partnership with a man (Grace & Frankie's Sheen, coincidentally), begging his son for a scrap of understanding.
In his previous film, " Ghost Story " (2017), a note is tucked into a fissure in a wall and finally read, ages later, by a spectre, though not by us; at the diner, in "The Old Man & the Gun," Bob scribbles something confidential on a scrap of paper, and passes it over to Jewel.
For the next two months, in a daily blitzkrieg of published fulmination, a ballplayer's only recourse in the era before free agency, Ruth issued daily bulletins rejecting his contract as "a scrap of paper" and declaring his intention to return it unsigned, which in a previous interview he said he had already done.
In addition to 25 trash bags' worth of straw, Allington-Jones and his team extracted all kinds of odds and ends that had been weighing down the fish: iron bars, floorboards, a broken chair from 1883, and a scrap of newspaper from the Sydney Morning Herald, dated January 26 of that year.
A half-baked trade rumor, a story about a scuffle, a scrap of trash talk, all of it leads the imagination on a leash, takes the mind to a place where you can romp around in truths, half truths, and fictions of the game—a palace of wondering what did, what will, or what could happen somewhere.
Then again, Dial's work proclaims its creator's technical proficiency, and his sheer delight in the handling of his materials and his discovery of their expressive power, in every twist of a metal rod or splash of paint on a scrap of fabric or thrust of a color-saturated line that gives shape to his mixed-media constructions or pictures on paper.
In time, buoyed by the idea of art informel, Oberhuber created his own formless-form sculptures using clay or plaster, culminating, in 13, with "Ende" ("End"), a spooky wire rim of an old lampshade, with fragments of fabric dangling from it like shreds of meat on a scrap of bone, all of which he dipped in plaster and then mounted on a wood-block base.
What's important is simply that this first book exists, so that one day, centuries from now, after the bombs go off and EMPs take out the electrical grid, long after Twitter has died, a solitary wanderer may find a scrap of paper buried in the ruins of my Brooklyn apartment building, and they will lift it up to the dying sun and squint through their protective goggles to read:
In addition to samples of common tree species, like ginkgos, banyans, redwoods, Phoenix palms, and Lebanese cedars, she scored a piece of a nearly 5,000-year-old Methuselah tree, one of the world's oldest living organisms; a scrap of railroad tie taken from the Panama Canal Railway, which claimed the lives of thousands of workers during its construction; and wood salvaged from the Atlantic City boardwalk, devastated by Hurricane Sandy in 2012.
We made a trip of it, drove from the coast, collected mosquito bites like merit badges in Michigan, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, though not quite so alphabetically, and camped on the shores of Superior in a tent my boyfriend hadn't used for years, which, when unfurled, contained a scrap of paper with "I love you" from his home-town girlfriend, who I had just met with her husband for a drink or five on my part while passing through said home town.

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