Word: ratting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...morale vitamin, Jeff comes home from the wars with a Congressional Medal of Honor, is boomed for the State Senate by his G.I. buddies, gives the "Oak Falls" machine its first lambasting in 20 years. After one slapdown in the Senate he finds his political legs, starts chasing political rats. First rat: the grafting director of a state insane asylum. Next on the fighting Senator's agenda: underpayment of teachers, black-market babies, maladministration of prisons...
This week Ohio's metropolis buzzed happily with plans for making its Founders' Day a memorable sesquicentennial event. Up the twisting, industry-fouled, rat-grey Cuyahoga (rhymes with buy a toga) River, now edged with iron and steel furnaces, oil refineries, factories, warehouses, docks and long ore, coal and grain ships, a small boat will bring Leading Citizens to re-enact the landing (complete to an Indian greeter). There will be the inevitable Civic Luncheon (Clevelanders love anything with the word Civic in front of it). That night in the spacious downtown Mall there will be carnival: floats...
Perseverance and the ability to work quickly under pressure will be amply rewarded this afternoon, when the editors of the Crimson present to the first registrant successfully emerging from the Memorial Hall clerical rat-race a free, full-year subscription to Cambridge's only breakfast table newspaper...
...smouldering disgust." He was really burning by the time he got down to writing his Sunday column in the New York Times Book Review. Wrote he: the trouble with poetry today is the way most critics write about it. "They worry at poetry like a terrier with a rat. They are bleeding it to death...
...mustn't be asked to enter a rat-race of publication," he asserted. On the other hand "no one lauds the professor who parrots what he learned in college thirty years ago from his old undergraduate notes...