Word: ratting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trying to lessen pressures on students and help them to apply intelligently and realistically," Bender said. Ideally, Group A students should apply to only one of the three schools, and then "forget about the college admissions rat race and make the best of their senior year," he added...
Time poses another problem to jazz growth at Harvard, as at any college. Most Harvard jazzmen play for fun, or spare change, and if they find the rat-race for contacts and publicity takes too much time, jazz fades out. A shortage of skilled players and the lack of practice time kills most chances for a well-rounded dixie group--a band without a "weak link." The missing "weak link" makes Gardner's group unique, and even here the talent is one third alien...
...wife's disaffections. He gets popped by a North Korean MIG, bails out over enemy territory. Mitchum, of course, has only to scoot home and catch a quick shower in order to nest down with the missing flyer's spouse (May Britt). Instead, the red-blooded rat turns true blue; he bellylands his plane, heaps Philips over his shoulder and reels (about 25) back to their own lines. There Philips' repentant wife waves disconsolate farewell to Mitchum, but he does not even notice. He is staring at those vapor trails...
...their surprise, Orwell's sponsors of the Left Book Club discovered that they had not sent a tame canary down the mine to expire obligingly while testing the foul air; they had to deal with a cornered mine rat. Having sketched his Daumier-like cartoon of misery, George Orwell turned with ruthless, cold caricature on the socialists themselves, who thought they had the answer to the inhuman conditions he had described...
...scheme was to issue new shares of Cornucopia, swap them for stock in the proposed subsidiaries. That part of the deal never got off the ground. Smelling a rat, SEC stepped in, and refused to clear a proxy statement to get existing shareholders' permission for the issue. Meanwhile the American Exchange had suspended Cornucopia from trading for failure to file required financial statements. Nevertheless, even though Belle & Co. only held options, they were able to install officers in some of the companies (making textiles, hot-water heaters and electronics, a printing plant, real estate, etc.) and sweet-talk...