Word: rat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...built, Clay ordered an armed escort to accompany the Americans through the checkpoint; then he brought up tanks to the border. The Soviets in turn sent then" tanks to confront the Americans. For 16 tense hours, the two superpowers were thus nose to nose. Though White House advisers were rat tled, Khrushchev finally backed down and withdrew his hardware. But the wrong lessons had been learned. Instead of rewarding Clay for his stalwart behavior, the White House thought he had exceeded his authority, and the general soon resigned his post...
Other songs on the album go the opposite way--tones and squeals ornament the chillier lyrics about sanitized society. On "Green Shirt," an obstinate bass pulse and the rat-tat-tat of a machine gun drum hover behind these lyrics...
...everything it touches bright crimson. A few bankers' groups offer rewards for tips leading to the arrest and indictment of robbers. The Washington Bankers Association has a payoff program that helped indict eight thieves in its first year. It is known by the acronym ROAR, which stands for RAT ON A RAT...
...based on the work of Soviet Physiologist Levon A. Matinyan, who claims to have regenerated severed spinal cords in rats. If he has, he is the first to have done it, and many American spinal experts are openly skeptical of Matinyan's report. Still, the National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke was sufficiently intrigued to invite Matinyan and the Polenov's director, Veniamin U. Ugryumov, to the U.S. in 1976. American researchers are trying to duplicate the rat experiment, but Dr. Murray Goldstein, NlNCDS's deputy director, says that preliminary results are disappointing...
Puppetry released something in Henson that had not been noticeable before. During his senior year at a Maryland high school, he heard that a local TV station was looking for puppeteers. He knew nothing about puppets, but television fascinated him. He and a friend sewed together a rat puppet that looked French and was called Pierre and a couple of cowboys. They were put to work on The Junior Morning Show, which ran for three weeks and then sank without a Variety trace. Henson's career was moving, however, with an ease and certainty that now seem almost eerie...