Word: grub
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Organisms with a life span of five years, like that of the beetle grub, would be able to survive even a five year trip inside a log," Fell said. Marine organisms like barnacles could also be transported on the outside of the log, he said...
...Huxley. It is not hard to imagine how Wells would be impressed by a theory that made the monkey the common ancestor of kings and cockneys. He was soon mixing Darwinian science and the social philosophy of Herbert Spencer in articles and stories that found ready outlets in Grub Street periodicals...
More likely, dearie, you'll hold down two jobs-'cause when you get home from that executive job in the sky, there ain't gonna be no unliberated woman left (and certainly no man) to do your grub work. Join the rat race without me. I'll take it like...
Choice of Grub. Breaking a traditional reticence, top officers of Scotland Yard seemed to be starting a campaign aimed at building public support for harsher treatment of criminals. In what the London Times called "a rare and remarkable statement of police philosophy," two senior Scotland Yard officers sharply criticized the politicians and courts for what they termed excessive leniency. Said Peter Brodie, assistant commissioner in charge of crime investigations: "My colleagues and I remember when a villain got a whacking sentence and was sent to Dartmoor. There he got flogged, he broke stones and he sewed mailbags. After...
Among the social functions performed by poverty, says Gans, is the guarantee of status to the nonpoor. The working class needs the poor to look down on; the aristocracy, by busying itself with settlement houses and charity balls, justifies its existence and proves its superiority to workers who grub for money. Beyond that, the poor "offer vicarious participation to the rest of the population in the uninhibited sexual, alcoholic and narcotic behavior in which they are alleged to participate." They have a cultural role too: Americans have taken over much music that was born in the slums, and poetry...