Word: rat-and
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
This newspaper ad, printed a month ago in the New York World-Telegram and Sun, and paid for out of the pockets of a Harlem school staff, touched it off. The teachers begged for a cleanup of their rat-and cockroach-infested building, protesting against "sagging walls, unsanitary toilets, leaking roof, refrigerator temperatures in the winter and oven-like sweltering during spring." By last week that appeared to be a rough description of many New York City schools, and four sets of investigators were looking into far-reaching corruption in the most colossal, colossally troubled school system in the nation...
Saturation Attack. Near Hailey, Idaho, miffed because a rat was chewing up a saddle he kept in a barn, Arne Friestad let fly with a shotgun, demolished the rat-and also the barn when pellets struck a nearby box of dynamite...
...been the Year of the Rat-and the year of the Communists. In the Chinese calendar, the old year stood for misfortune and deceit. A few surreptitious firecrackers, still forbidden under martial law, last week heralded the New Year of the Ox, which signified hard work and persistence. In present-day China, inevitably, it also signified sorrow and loss...
| 1 |