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Word: cockroach (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Like many undergraduates, Hamlin will also remember the more trivial protests he was involved in. One morning at breakfast, he recalls, a cockroach crawled out from under his scrambled eggs. He was furious, and he asked to speak to the dining ball manager "but I never raised my voice or swore. I know how to do that sort of thing...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Making It With Pride | 6/4/1981 | See Source »

...manager complained to the House master, and Hamlin was called into the master's office. "I didn't know what it was all about. I was scared. Then the master said, 'About that cockroach...'" But Hamlin didn't want to squander his upward mobility by making a fuss over a hungry roach. "It was a lot of sound and fury signifying nothing. But I was worried, I thought: 'Is my degree in jeopardy? My future?' This master was pretty mad because the manager was outraged. I never got a chance to confront...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Making It With Pride | 6/4/1981 | See Source »

...Cockroach...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Ratliff File | 2/12/1981 | See Source »

...violent human having committed suicide, non-violent cockroach has a colorful evolution the next 100,000,000 years! Henry Ratliff...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Ratliff File | 2/12/1981 | See Source »

...door that many people notice; it blend, in between the storefront of the clothing store that once upon a time decided to launch a xeroxing price war in Harvard Square (look that one up in your Ec 10 workbook) and a restaurant where a friend once found a cockroach meandering through his Peking Meat Sauce Noodles...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin president, | Title: A Parting Shot | 2/2/1981 | See Source »

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