Word: piranhas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nonetheless the decision is made to keep Dean away from the White House without actually firing him ("Pass the word to everybody in this place that he's a piranha," Ehrlichman suggests). Nixon needs no urging. He emphatically makes the point that Dean never saw him alone until March, and then only at Ehrlichman's suggestion. He declines responsibility for Dean's conduct...
...television. We're the ultimate American band-the end product of an affluent society." Once in Muskegon, Mich., the offspring of that society tore Alice from the stage, ripping off his clothes and jewelry. Nursing a cut on his back, Alice chirped: "They're like piranha fish. I like an audience that's alive...
...prove, among other things, that the dominant Christian Democrats are a party only in name. In fact, the name encompasses a loose alliance of fluctuating factions numbering anywhere from nine to twelve. Historically, every time a new Christian Democratic leader has emerged, he has been chewed up by piranha-like subordinates who inexplicably have sought to rise to the top, where they knew that they too would be eaten in turn...
...officer in the Piranha Co. [a Boston loan-shark operation]. The name Piranha Co. was taken from the fish of that name, which is a maneater. We had a live one in a fishbowl in the place. We wanted to be known as a tough outfit: if anybody was slow in paying, we told him we'd stick his hand in the fishbowl. What do you think happened? The fish bit. We used to feed the thing a dozen live goldfish...
...Making up names like Asia mynah, cuff lynx, and piranha old gray bonnet isn't aardvark...