Word: rat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Olson for the first three rounds. Bobo, a clever boxer without a killing punch, backtracked nimbly, protected his head with his arms, and bided his time. As Turpin began to run out of steam-he had boxed less than 30 rounds in training -Bobo began his own offensive: a rat-tat-tat of light lefts and rights with just enough poke to them to keep Turpin off balance...
...book's vivid ones: a sweaty Hindu midwife charging across a hut head down and butting her patient to speed delivery; a band of Zulus chanting a hymn of hate for Hindus: "Who is it that takes our land? The little coolie, the skeleton. Who is this rat that walks like a lion amongst the Zulus? . . . Rise, O Zulus, kill...
...medical schools take their own advice seriously and act to stop over-specialization among pre-meds, they will continue to receive applications predominantly from science concentrators. Nor can they blame the pre-med, who narrow his sights and therefore his life-long interests, to win first prize in the rat race...
Last week in Berlin there were candles for Ernst Reuter on both sides of the Brandenburger Tor. His body lay on a catafalque in front of his beloved Rat-haus. The coffin was draped in the Berlin flag and surmounted by his black beret. All one day and all that night, tens of thousands of Berliners filed past. Among them were many East Berliners, clutching their free food parcels. "He was our Reuter too," said one East zone woman. Her husband could only mutter: "What will...
...Hans Sloane, a prosperous 18th century physician who developed a passion for collecting, scurried over the world like a pack rat, assembling books, manuscripts, Roman, Egyptian and Asiatic antiquities, coins, medals and works of art. Sloane's friends (among them: Isaac Newton, Samuel Pepys, Christopher Wren, Alexander Pope) sent him odd things from everywhere. One friend, Poet Thomas Hearne, versified that he had collected for the good doctor...