Word: rat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...exclaims: "Think of the men who have sat in that office, the dignity surrounding it. What will be left when he gets through with it, Lord only knows." Says Mrs. Margene Williams, 53, a gift shop operator: "When Agnew resigned we caught the flea but not the rat." Adds Tom Cook, 52, a printer: "I can do without steak, but I don't want my three kids to grow up in the country...
...glowing space of light and warmth, along the book shelves and above the desk, summon for me a wealth of English recollections and associations, olden days in ancient places green and golden, many good hours of secure existence. I think of this also: lead-paint plaster, roach-invasion, rat-infestation of those desperate tenement-quarters on the other side of town in which 10,000 black and Puerto Rican families lead their hungry, hot and agonizing lives. I ask myself: Is it for this, for cruelties like these, for disproportions on this scale, that all of his labors, dreams...
...CHAIRMAN OF the Council's Finance Committee, Moncreiff had a major role in instituting the new system. While the firemen have accepted it, the police remain opposed, and Moncreiff is well aware of that. "I've had some police wives call up and call me a cheesy rat," he says with a smile...
...RETIRE AT 41: Or Dropping Out of the Rat Race Without Going Down the Drain...
...academic rat race continues, and as long as the departments stress the thesis so heavily, undergraduates will strive to beat the deadlines, to write the summa paper, to make their Who's Who's listing more impressive. Although the thesis only counts one-third toward the degree award in most departments, an inordinate amount of importance has been placed on its quality. As a result, undergraduates have become increasingly aware of the inequities of a system that can probably never be equitable, and the cries of anguish have grown louder in recent years...