Word: ratting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Plan, the United Nations, aid for veterans, as well as strong national defense. In his first term, Ford's Americans for Democratic Action rating was 13 per cent, rising to a surprising 67 per cent in 1966. But in 1967, he voted against OEO, Model Cities, and a federal rat control program--the Great Society left Gerry behind. In 1971, he was voting with congressional conservatives 87 per cent of the time, the second most ardent Nixon supporter...
...supposed peculiar vices of the Nixon White House and the Republican Party. Smoothy, shrewd, wealthy, and opportunistic, Connally was a perfect target for liberal acrimony. When he left the Democrats for the GOP in 1973, his old enemy Ralph Yarborough remarked "That's the first time in history a rat has swam toward a sinking ship." The indictment merely confirmed what Connally's enemies had long suspected, and few doubted he would be convicted. Asked why a man of Cornally's wealth would risk his career for a piddling $10,000, one politician replied "John would think of that...
...what I am." she shrugs. A female Jehovah in love with Satan is a reversal with more satiric point than many of the Romantics were able to suggest--one of LaZebnik's most inspired ideas. But except for few brief stretches--as when a Keystone Cop enters and rat-tat-tats the finest...
Welles becomes a sewer rat; every exit is covered and his seemingly endless ability to scramble in and out of huge blocks of misshapen rubble is exhausted. The underground chase goes on for a little too long--any recent film like Bullitt could give us a more varied and exciting sequence, probably with helicopters and Jensens and a pyrotechnic climax. Major Calloway is a wiser, more upstanding policeman than any (although Ironside may be a close second) but he is part of the irrelevant, whodunit part of the story...
Willwerth is a TIME correspondent and the author of a Viet Nam book, Eye in the Last Storm. He intensifies his work with a sharp eye for the rat sitting boldly in the entrance of a flophouse or the menacing sense of the street he feels on his way to the subway after a late-night interview. He has also made the sensible decision not to deny his own presence; he straightforwardly records the fears, anger and liking he feels for his troubled subject?even after Jones tells him, perhaps in a mood of false boasting, that he has committed...