Word: ratted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Matagulay said that the Viet Cong moved freely over the countryside and that in the villages peasants freely offered rebels food and shelter. The typical menu for both prisoner and captors was rice, salt and fish oil. Rats were an occasional delicacy that brightened the diet-served both as rat soup and barbecued rodent. Though game was plentiful, the Reds never hunted. "They were afraid to use up ammunition hunting deer," said Matagulay...
Still more confusing are the crossovers between species. Millions of monkeys carry a virus which apparently does them no harm. But this virus, known as SV-40, may cause tumors if injected into hamsters. Viruses found in human tissues and in some rat cancers make hamsters bear deformed young with features resembling human mongolism. One virus that normally causes only grippe in man will cause cancer in hamsters...
...fine to give food and drugs to a needy nation, but please, not with the stigma of letting some rat like Castro force us to give it to him as tribute...
...Dumbwaiter and The Collection, by Harold Pinter. In these two one-acters, Britain's most provocative dramatist puts his characters in an enigmatic rat's maze where they twist, turn and stumble, seeking each other and the truth with absurd and terrifying results...
After 25 years of servitude, Bette twigs her sister's game. The shock, the realization that she has wasted her life, knocks a screw loose. With the cunning of unreason she connives a hideous revenge. Day by day she tantalizes her sister with sumptuous meals, but after the rat and the parakeet the cripple is afraid to eat. Day by day the victim grows weaker. When she calls for help, Bette rips out the phone. When she crawls downstairs, Bette ties her up and tapes her mouth shut. When she warns the maid, Bette cracks the woman...