Word: rat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rat Race on the Roads. The stage was set for the big third act. To play the principal role, both Buckeyes and cavalrymen drove swiftly southward. The cavalry had mechanization and thus the big advantage. While Beightler's foot-slogging Buckeyes hurried along, cleaning out nest after nest of Japs as they went, Mudge's cavalrymen piled into trucks, jeeps and half-tracks at Guimba and ripped toward Manila over Highway...
...Then they reluctantly accepted their first P-38 Lightnings. "The P-38 was strictly a truck," says one squadron's records, describing the first reaction of pilots. "Old Darwin men knew they would never see the real scramble again or . . . the close-quarter hairy old rat races above the field." But after the required 50 hours' training in P-38s, all the Forty-niners were won over...
...goodhearted, Mr. Perkins is not a bad fellow. He visits a collective farm, tours the front, where he eats his own sausage, sent to Russia under Lend-Lease. He and the Russians understand one another. But "Mr. Hemp," the U.S. correspondent accompanying Perkins, is a slippery, prying, anti-Soviet rat...
...played endless practical jokes. When one of her victims sent her a dead rat in retaliation, she screamed with laughter, sent it back with a lily on its chest. She loved her two dogs-a Sealyham, Chips, and a Scottie, Chops-summoning them with ear-splitting whistles. In moments of remorse she would sink to her knees to pray...
Farewell is done to a fare-thee-well by everybody from the costumer to the excellent cast. Sets that should look threadbare have seldom looked so rat-ridden. The neon sign outside a crummy dive is almost too properly defective. There is an enthusiastic appetite for everything possibly sinister about a big city and its people. The makers of the film go farther with their realism: they try to make sensations and states of mind visual. Best: the drug sequence, presenting through double exposure an indecipherable web of confusion and dreamlike memory...