Word: ferreted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Double Standard. Economic reporting is often found wanting in less visible ways. Reporters who would not hesitate to ferret out Watergate wrongdoing can be slow to investigate industry pricing policies, question whether suspiciously large price hikes are fully justified by rising costs or merely constitute price gouging, or examine the inflationary effects of monopolistic or Government regulatory policies. A recent Boston Herald-American story, for example, simplistically concluded that local retailers were raising their prices because "inflation is killing them...
Meals and Medicare. Also genuinely devoted to their pets are such people as Glen Crank, a blue-collar worker in Hammond, Ind., whose dependents include a poodle, a pointer, a Saint Bernard (caskless), a cat, a ferret and a cougar named Rajah; to defray Rajah's $1,000 acquisition costs, say the Cranks, they had to "eat beans for months." (They have since been forced by neighborhood pressure to give Rajah to a local zoo.) The potentates of petdom may well be the 65 dogs whose meals and Medicare are assured by the will of Quaker State Oil Heiress...
...Adams' industrious Hazel, Fiver and Bigwig are pelt-deep fictions; in the real world, male rabbits are lallygagging drones. The does, contrary to those powder puffs in Watership Down, dig the burrows, run the homes and defend their young with Amazonian ferocity against such formidable enemies as the ferret, stoat and weasel...
Condemned to death were one civilian, Carlos Lazo, 46, former vice president of the Central Bank, and three air force officers, all on grounds of subversion and high treason. The main charge against Lazo was that he supposedly met with officers in an effort to ferret out air force men opposed to the leftist government of Salvador Allende Gossens...
...which brings Caine up against the realization that his superiors have no intention of ransoming his son, has the texture of steel. Don Siegel (Dirty Harry) delineates his characters quickly and vividly, with toughness and sly attention to quirks of behavior. Donald Pleasence plays another intelligence officer-a compulsive ferret with eyes like stomped marbles-in a true virtuoso turn. Pleasence, however, gets shuffled to the sidelines during the later portion of the film, and the picture itself changes from a briskly elegant exercise into real Mickey Mouse melodrama...