Word: rat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reassessment, if the J.C.S. followed Sherman, and for that matter, Airman Vandenberg, would mean the end of the concept of the "balanced force"-at least insofar as it operated on the "a-pistol-for-Mole, a-pistol-for-Badger, a-pistol-for-Rat" three-way even split of the defense dollar. It would probably mean a bigger Air Force and a bigger Navy, a smaller share for the Army...
...noisy working conditions. Such defects, Hargrave argues, reduce efficiency, impair health and affect the workers' home life. The source of his data: 2,549 workers at the Long Beach Naval Shipyard (now closed) whose cornmandant had invited Hargrave to make the study. Amid the clang of steel, the rat-a-tat-tat of jackhammers and riveting machines, Earman Hargrave interviewed man after man. Some of his findings: ¶| Even the hard of hearing had no trouble with common shop talk, e.g., such words as blower, rivet, steel. But unfamiliar words spoken by strangers were unintelligible under the same conditions...
...Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow" raised the petty rumblings of the sheet-metal-and- hammer boys behind stage to the stature of an expression of Nature; his "Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, and then no breath at all? over the corpse of Cordelia was pure pathos. In portraying the fall of Lear from king to disillusioned father, to madman, to dying, bereaved old man, Devlin combines the grandeur of the king and the weakness of the old man. He binds the magnificent curse of his miscreant daughter Generil ("Into her womb convey...
...talked of the instinct of survival, of the stern obligation of democracy to protect and preserve itself, and, hopefully, of the possibility that the H-bomb might actually preserve the peace. Negative Promise. "The question that must engage us, caught up as we are in this atomic rat race, is whether the effort which is being made away from destruction is as great and compelling as the effort which impels us toward it," editorialized the Louisville Courier-Journal. Michigan's convalescing Senator Arthur Vandenberg proposed that the President formally notify the United Na tions that the U.S. would abandon...
Relying on the local critics isn't always practical either, because the show you see on opening night may be quite different from the one you see during the second week of the run. (A flagrant case of this is Garson Kanin's play, "The Rat Race," of which only 35 percent of the original 'Boston' script remained by the time it opened in New York...