Word: cats
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Francisco when partisans of the newborn United Prisoners Union (national membership about 400) turned out to publicize their cause with a brunch of prison food. The "isolation loaf," made from a Department of Corrections recipe for prisoners in solitary, was pronounced revolting by the "name" guests. "A cross between cat food and dog food," said Writer Jessica Mitford. But some of the freeloaders seemed to think it wasn't bad. One fellow who went back for seconds turned out to be Radical Lawyer William Kunstler, who said he had had no food the day before...
...losing the charm of his drawing. Reclining Tiger, and from his sketches of a spotted leopard and a listless, striped tiger, framed he fearful symmetry of a wide-eyed beast of prey, Tigre Royale. Where in pencil, the tiger's feet were merely misshaped ovals, in lithograph form, the cat's paws took on the stream-lined and savage spikes of track shoes. His feline groin is striped like a surreal clouded sky and reiterates the contours of the landscape...
...been content with the security of a steady job, they have not experienced a depression. They look with horror at the prospect of forty years of bolt-tightening and shoveling. Drugs, long hair and other forms of middle class alienation are spreading to the working class. More substantially, wild-cat striking and rejection of union negotiated cantracts have been rising exponentially in recent years, actions primarily initiated by young workers...
...unionization is one of the lowest in the West. White-collar clerical, governmental and other service positions, filled primarily by the white majority and in an expanding sector of the economy, have resisted unionization almost totally. Although recent improvements in organization in this sector have been evidenced by wild-cat police and postal worker strikes, much work needs to be done...
...rooms. Nowadays the servants are joined by laundresses, window washers and security guards who exchange work for living space; other Mexicans pay up to $12 a month for a niche on a roof. The amenities, while sparse, usually include running water, electricity and enough room for a dog, a cat or a few chickens...