Word: miceli
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some of the truculent truckers also acknowledged that they could cause a backlash that would hurt them in the end. Public sympathy is quickly eroded by violence. Admits Vernon: "It makes us look Mice bandits." At week's end scattered acts of violence were continuing, and no one -not even the stubbornly independent owner-operators-could tell just how long their strike would...
Carter worked in his shirtsleeves. His problem was aggravated because the staff had sealed the windows of the Oval Office to combat a second problem: mice scampering over the low window ledges. "How can people say rats are deserting this ship?" quipped one White House...
...year when Thomas, then at the Rockefeller Institute, was called for service in the Navy. Lieut. Commander Thomas waded ashore during the dramatic invasion of Okinawa and collected a lifelong memory: "I went over the side of a troop transport with a case on my shoulder containing 50 white mice, bedded on white toilet paper. One soldier who watched me wade ashore with this load said, 'Now I've seen everything.' " Thomas' burden was not a secret weapon but a collection of research animals; the Navy feared that troops on Okinawa would be endangered...
...animals in the Friuli region of northeastern Italy inexplicably went berserk. Dogs began barking and howling, cats ran into the streets, and hens refused to roost. Mice and rats scurried out of their hiding places and ran in circles. Horses and cows fidgeted in their stalls. Pet birds flapped their wings and emitted agonizing calls, almost as if they sensed what was about to occur. At 9 o'clock that night, the Friuli area was jolted by a major earthquake...
...food. In a statement that would later be cited as proof that he was an "unrepentant capitalist reader," Teng declared: "Private farming is all right as long as it raises production, just as it doesn't matter whether a cat is black or white as long as it catches mice." Mao was not informed of the farming plan, and testily inquired, "Which emperor decided this...