Word: pipsqueak
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gooder Eliot Rosewater and sci-fi prophet Kilgore Trout, and built up interplay between two characters more central to the heart of Slaughterhouse itself: Edgar Derby, Billy's best friend, substitute father figure and moral fellow; and PaulLazarro, the evil of the world summed up in a pipsqueak from South Philly, a monomaniacal revenger who finally kills Pilgrim for no good reason. Derby is executed for "stealing" a figurine from the Dresden rubble in order to replace an identical one broken by his son, While Lazarro survives the war rat-like, chewing off his own guts and using the bile...
Meany called the leader of the business representatives, General Electric Co. Vice President Virgil Day, "a pipsqueak." He also charged that labor members of the board were offered an "under-the-table deal" that would have permitted big unions to gain pay boosts above the board's 5.5% guideline if smaller unions were pressured into accepting the official goal. Actually, it is far more likely that the big-union contracts were merely used as examples during board discussions...