Word: ratting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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McClure is a consistent conservative who in the past has supported re- peal of the federal income tax, and more recently opposed a Government rat-extermination program ("In Payette we kill our own rats"). He ran a smooth campaign against Idaho State University President William E. Davis, 43, shrewdly tying the moderate Democrat to unpopular McGovern positions. When it came out that Davis endorsed the farm workers' lettuce boycott, Mc-Clure staffers passed the word: "Will a potato boycott be next...
...three networks offered disclaimers of a rat, horse or broadcast race. "It's accuracy that counts," insisted NBC Executive Producer Robert Northshield. "I didn't give one goddam who won the race. The minute I walk into the studio I always enjoy a suspension of citizenship." Still he was quick to recall that NBC had been the first to predict the Johnson victory in 1964. ABC News President Elmer Lower also demanded accuracy over immediacy-and put his network where his mouth was. Ronald Reagan, among others, had asked that broadcasters hold predictions until Western polls closed...
Then, well before Jonathan was published as a book, Bach left his wife and six children. "Part of me felt like a rat," he admits, "but I had to ask myself if I could live there any longer. And I couldn't." Recently he has settled a good deal of money on the family and established them in a large house near Lake Michigan. He and his wife Bette are on easier terms. Neither will discuss persistent rumors of another woman, though Bach says that freedom was the real issue and suggests that he will never again be able...
...accordance with Roberts's view that "the environment" is an urban as well as a wilderness issue, the statement gives considerable emphasis to problems of the urban environment, such as the lack of recreational space in and around urban areas, noise pollution, and rat control...
...morning after the abortive coup, when calm had apparently returned to the capital, Morocco was shaken with the official announcement that eight hours after the attack on the royal plane, Oufkir had shot himself in the head at the King's palace at Skhi-rat. When word first broke, speculation was that he might have done so out of a sense of disgrace at having failed to prevent the revolt. Not so, charged Interior Minister Mohammed Benhima, revealing that one of the Gibraltar fugitives had implicated Oufkir. "It was a suicide of treachery," he said, "not a suicide...