Word: monkeyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wasting practices known as featherbedding. These intricate Railroad Brotherhood rules, devised when railroad traffic was shrinking, are aimed at making work and keeping a maximum number of men on the payrolls. Though obsolete and wasteful now, featherbed rules are a sacred cow in labor politics. Few railroad presidents dare monkey with them...
Tonight's meeting will be devoted to the annual public address of the Association, delivered by Dr. C. Ray Carpenter, whose topic will be "Behavior and Social Relations of the Rhesus Monkey...
...Angeles, Jungle Book is as absorbing as a behind-the-scenes trip to the zoo. But when they converse in Kipling's English, the result is painful. The python sounds like Lionel Barrymore; the cobra, who is very long winded, like a wheezy crackerbox philosopher; a tough monkey like a Tammany ward heeler...
...Mandalay last week a correspondent recalled a characteristic crack made by Lieut. General Joseph ("Uncle Joe") Stilwell, who now commands U.S. and Chinese forces in Burma. Said Uncle Joe: "The higher a monkey climbs on a pole, the more you can see of his backside." Uncle Joe said that many months ago. As the Jap climbed up the Burma pole last week, he saw much more of the Allies' backsides than they...
...TIME, Dec. 15, you state: "One Japanese was arrested for snipping telephone wires" (in Manila); this a full day after the little yellow men had assassinated thousands of Americans in Hawaii. He should not have been arrested, he should have been shot immediately. This is WAR, not monkey business...