Word: roach
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...their fathers murdered, their sisters raped and their homes burned." His fear, says McCarthy, is that "the intensity and blindness of American policy will produce the opposite effect of what lovers of freedom want-a situation leading to a Communist take-over." For these reasons, says Archbishop John R. Roach of St. Paul and Minneapolis, president of the Bishops' Conference, the group has taken its stand and asked Washington to refrain from "massively increasing the destructive capability of the armed forces." The bishops have not addressed themselves to what the U.S. should do if such restraint should lead...
...have come not for a balmy retirement, but for work, mostly at night. They are geckos-purple polka-dotted lizards, ranging from three inches to a foot long-and their job is eating cockroaches. Convinced that poisons and fatally sticky boxes do not provide enough firepower in the roach war, many Floridians are giving store-bought geckos (price: $10 to $20 apiece) the run of their homes. Bill Huff, who owns House of Pets in Tallahassee, says he sold 36 geckos in one week. He ran an ad in the Florida State University newspaper: GOT ROACHES? GET GECKO. St. Petersburg...
Krieger can, for instance, tell you just who it was who came up with what is now his universal vocal community nickname: Bernie the Roach. He can tell you which member of the Harvard Krokodiloes (in the early '70s still a subset of the Glee Club) thought of rewriting the lyrics to "yo ho" during which rehearsals in which room in Sever. (The produce of that effort appears elsewhere on the page.) He will even tell you he doesn't mind the nickname. "I have never been sure," he will tell you, "whether the roach they referred to was something...
...than many of the undergraduate singers are willing to admit. Krieger is for them primarily a social focus rather than a musical or managerial one. The chronicle of any Harvard singer's Glee Club or Collegium career is bound to include a few very amusing stories about Bernie the Roach...
Bernie's--a roach...