Word: rat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...defense of Hugh O'Neil, the great Earl of Tyrone, ends in an explanation of Elizabethan expansion as the result of a price squeeze on the gentlemen of England. There Totem and Taboo is tabooed, with anthropological reasons. Here some pellet-counters thrash out the merits of the rat and the hamster as laboratory animals. There the probable next moves of the Rubber Workers Union are mapped...
With the warmth and companionship of her husband, Crip, she is guarding two shine white eggs--the embodied hopes of the world's remaining 28 whooping cranes. But Josephine, oh Josephine, beware the avaricious owl and the rapacious rats who murdered your babe last year. Let your keepers continue their 24 hour guard, let them burn the floodlights brightly, and let them keep the ditch around your cage filled with rat poison...
...boss, one-man Groupthinker Sylvester L. ("Pat") Weaver, bubbled into activity again with a new pro-culture idea called Program Service, a high-class passel of TV shows that Weaver hopes to beam from stations in 15 "great bellwether markets." Aiming to operate above and beyond the ratings rat race. Pat Weaver, anxious to "enlighten and enrich," will soon start sending out signals to "all the mad scientists in the entertainment and information fields to start brewing their heady brews." Meanwhile, Quiz Whiz Charles Van Doren signed an exclusive five-year contract with NBC at a salary "close...
...Mother Goose's story of bringing home the bacon, the cat, as soon as it got its saucer of milk, began to kill the rat, which began to gnaw the rope, which began to hang the butcher, who began to kill the ox, which began to drink the water, which began to quench the fire, which began to burn the stick, which began to beat the dog, which began to bite the little pig-which then in fright jumped over the stile so that the old woman brought it home from market that night after...
...themselves-wrote to explain that the folks who made the trouble were "poor white trash," "Michigan farmers," "a lower grade of people that are not exactly civilized." But the heaviest response came from hillbillies who had heard about the series. They called Norma Lee-with embellishments -"nigger-lover," "sewer rat," "D.P.," "Communist," "garbage picker," threatened her with fates ranging from poisoning via "Southern-fried chicken in arsenic" to dismemberment at the hands of "us woman folks." To Editor Kennedy such letters were vivid proof that he had hold of a good story. At week's end he ordered Norma...