Word: rat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rat [1960, 1972]--You have been blessed with great personal charm, a taste for the better things in life, and considerable self control...
...downtrodden, a champion of militant bargaining with the industry who would also work for social change through unionism. But basic Steelworkers average about $8 an hour, hardly a depressed wage; many live in the suburbs, and few are disposed to left-leaning politics. Surprisingly for a third-generation "mill rat," Sadlowski turned many workers off by referring repeatedly to "the shop floor," an expression that mill hands...
...brings us back to last night at the Garden and the first round of the Beanpot. It's not the Pot tourney, although the performance of some of the participants did lead one to believe that they were higher than the Celtics' World Championship flags which dangle from the rat-infested rafters...
Both are Steelworkers, and both are running for the presidency of the United Steelworkers of America, the largest union in the AFL-CIO. There ends all similarity between Ed Sadlowski and Lloyd McBride. Sadlowski is 38, a scrappy Pole, a third-generation "mill rat" who feels that U.S.W.'s leadership is too close to employers and too distant from the rank and file. McBride is balding, 60, grandfatherly, a lackluster speaker, a defender of the status quo-and the apparent front runner. McBride has one thing going for him that Sadlowski does not: the backing of I.W. Abel...
...chore," Stevenson confesses. "But the merit is getting the children into the theater both on the stage and in the audience." At a performance in San Antonio, he says, "you could hear the children in the audience screaming with joy when Fritz scares Clara with the rat. There is no other ballet like that...