Word: rat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...respect, the plague latent in the U.S. is a greater menace than that of China and medieval Europe. "Rat plague rises and falls within a century and finally flickers out. Wild rodent-sylvatic plague is everlasting and permanent" So said a leading U.S. plague expert. Dr. Karl F. Meyer of the University of California...
...under a secret agreement with Germany that the ships would not be sunk. McGuinness did better. He bargained on his own to carry I.R.A. and Nazi agents back & forth via Sweden, was all set to smuggle a German parachutist, Hans Marschner, back to Germany, when the government smelled a rat...
...them because he dislikes garters) caused a minor sensation. He was registered as wearing women's stockings. Then the cell door slammed shut. Koestler's description of what happens to prisoners after the cell door shuts reduces the dignity of man to the twitching of a laboratory rat...
Freshman registration, a Memorial Hall rat-race in any year will be crowded to capacity today because of the compressing of what is usually a three-day affair into the brief space of 12 hours...
...process of doubling up on rooms in the Houses, officials estimate that the capacity of the Houses will be raised 30% in order to take care of the estimated 2,000 Freshman applications for the Summer and Fall Terms. Students currently living in "rat houses" will be allowed to remain there, but from now on all incoming men must enter Houses...