When a dance school where the Kelly children were enrolled failed, their mother scraped together money to pay its bills and took it over.
He claimed his corner in 1993, often working 16-hour days, to scrape together enough money for a $70-a-week room two blocks down.
Several men shared a single room, sometimes sleeping on newspapers to scrape and save enough money to bring their families over.
But nearly two-thirds of the city's population could scrape together enough money for only an occasional Dream session, no matter how hard they worked.
She is also desperately scraping together money to determine the viability of another dream: eventually having children.
They performed at private functions and the two youths managed to scrape together enough money to live.
No insurance; every week, as he faded, his wife and daughters scraped money together to pay the hospital.
He did not win the first year, but managed to scrape together enough money to go back.
Where someone had scraped enough money for batteries there was dance music from boom boxes.
They finally managed to scrape enough money together to buy a used sofa for their tiny flat.