Word: ratting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lotteries and giveaways, Wainer promoted Ultima Hora into top circulation spots in Rio (85,000) and Sao Paulo (90,000). Ungrateful Sammy trained his guns on ex-Boss Chateaubriand's empire (28 newspapers, five magazines, two TV and 19 radio stations), denounced him as a "pirate" and "international rat," ridiculed him in front-page cartoons. Chateaubriand seethed, and bided his time...
Literary-minded sailors are fond of a prefabricated answer from Kenneth Grahame's classic book for children, The Wind in the Willows. Afloat one day, the Water Rat assured the Mole: "Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing-absolutely nothing-half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats. Simply messing . . ." Unfortunately, while the Water Rat is expounding this view, he absentmindedly runs his boat on to a mudbank...
Buried on an inside page, the Chicago Daily News three months ago ran a short, shocking story. "Rats chewed to death a nine-months-old girl," said the 90-word item, "as she lay in her crib in her West Side home [last night]." Few readers felt the impact of the story more than the News's Managing Editor Everett Norlander. Months before, he had planned a series on Chicago's 23 square miles of crawling, crumbling slums, abandoned the idea because he thought it was too big a job. "But I couldn't get that rat...
...many as 1,000 people are crowded into buildings intended for 200. One landlord's monthly income from an apartment, which he had split up into living quarters for three families, had quintupled since 1942. On file with the city housing commission were 10,000 complaints about rats, bugs and other unhealthy conditions which "the city is doing nothing about"; 57 rat-bite cases were treated in the last six months alone. In rare cases where landlords were haled into court, three out of five got off free, at worst paid an average fine...
...News staffer for the past seven years, found a family of four paying $52 a month for two rooms which he thought at first were unused coalbins. Amid the sagging stairways, falling ceilings and overflowing toilets, reporters discovered one child who had been nicknamed "Pig Face," after a rat bit off his nose. (Most families left the lights on all night in a vain effort to discourage rats.) Side by side, the News ran pictures of a building wrecked by the recent tornado and a Chicago tenement. Asked the caption: "Which was in the path of the tornado . . . which...