Word: ratted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kremlin Said No. This raised the question of his successor as secretary general of the 700,000-member party. The rat-race for power began as soon as the underlings realized the extent of the chief's illness. The faction urging a tough Communist line pushed their senior member, Andre Marty. But though Marty is a reliable fanatic, he is an inflexible fool save in his specialty: barricade-building and street fighting. Auguste Lecoeur, one of the party's four secretaries, emerged as the compromise choice. Though a graceless militant, he was Thorez' protege and, like Thorez...
From this point of view Universal Service is the better plan. The problem of the college elite, the discriminatory test, the grade, rat race will always be with the country under a deferment system, while the most harmful results of installing U.M.S. will affect the nation only for the first two years...
...colleges as students strived to stay in the required segment of their class. In pointing up holes in all the programs, Provost Buck, who backs Conant on U.M.S., refers to this result. As he explains, much of what Harvard stands for might go by the boards in a rat race...
...which 66, or 80, or 95 percent of any expense, depending on the marginal tax rate, comes out of taxes and is paid by the government. As one writer put it recently, excess profits taxation constitutes a standing offer by the government to put several dollars down every rat hole in which a business concern drops one dollar...
...Picasso, who declined to send anything to the show, might have conveyed more with a quiet little sketch of either the chicken or the rat. Yet Paris gallerygoers, bored stiff with disciples of past masters, were welcoming Lorjou's rebellion last week by beating a path to his big, brash canvas...