Word: ratting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...100th anniversary of the landing of the English sparrows in the U.S. Finicky ornithologists regard the immigrants as neither sparrows nor even especially English. They are weaver finches, originally from Africa, and have made a great success in life by attaching themselves, like the dog, the bedbug and the rat, to the fortunes of man. They colonized Europe long ago, swarming in its cities paved with nutritious refuse. In 1850 they reached Brooklyn...
...aroused Audubon Society, a dangerous adversary, considered the English sparrow Bird Enemy No. 1, outranking the feral cat and the small boy with an air rifle. Pamphlets blackened the sparrow's name. Said Biologist Ned Dearborn of the U.S. Biological Survey: "The English sparrow among birds, like the rat among mammals, is cunning, destructive and filthy...
...home of a neighbor, screaming "I shot him!" Soon afterward an Air Force MP found Andy's body in the Madsen living room close by a note written by Yvette: "I know my husband will beat me up. My only defense is to shoot him, the heel, the rat, the low creature...
George W. Malone, isolationist Republican from Nevada, a onetime prizefighter who fights a loud, long fight for narrow sectional interests. His Senate office is a rat's nest of statistics on the West's mineral resources and little else; his chair on the Senate floor is often vacant. Fifty-nine-year-old "Molly" Malone once represented the Western mining and industrial interests in the Capitol lobby; as a Senator, he still does...
...real Army veteran who underwent a 16-hour-a-day movie course with studio Trainer Jimmy Phillips. Recruited for the film from a Calabasas, Calif, mule dealer, he was dyed a darker hue from head to hoof, wore greasepaint on his mouth, powder on his nose, a "rat" in his tail, half-inch false eyelashes and-until he balked-extra-sized false ears. Like many a new-found star, patient Francis is currently making personal appearances with the picture...