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The USAT lead is that U.S. airlines are canceling domestic flights at a pace that will likely lead to the highest annual percentage of scratches in the last five years.
The author is spared an exhaustive listing by the constraints of her corpus (British newspapers), which provides a representative listing but barely scratches the surface of the language.
There are scratches on the veneer of authenticity, though.
The leaf decoction of Jatropha gossypifolia is used for bathing wounds [ 83 ] . The stem sap stops bleeding and itching of cuts and scratches [ 84 85 ] . The leaf bath is used for sores, sprains, rash and bewitchment in Latin America and the Caribbean [ 52 86 ] . Poultices are used for sores and pain in Trinidad [ 52 ] . These uses are similar to the ethnoveterinary use.
The act of gardening itself was joyous--rising early, smelling earth, getting dirty, getting scratches that I wore proudly, making compost, lugging, digging, and planting.