Word: rat
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...NOTEBOOK Hong Kong: Movie Blues China: Rat Poison Attack
...NOTEBOOK Hong Kong: Movie Blues China: Rat Poison Attack
...NOTEBOOK Hong Kong: Movie Blues China: Rat Poison Attack
...figure who seemed actively to court his family's contempt. When Mullan was 14 - by this time, he says, his father "had been serially raping my mother for a number of years" - the boy decided to take action. He prepared a cup of tea, added a generous dose of rat poison and took it into the sitting room. "I'd never made him a cup of tea in his life, and he knew it," says Mullan. "I laid it in front of him and he just grinned. He knew full well what I was thinking of doing. He found...
...bury. The young peasant didn't know at the time that the bugs had dropped from a Japanese airplane, or that his village in central China's Hunan province had fallen victim to World War II's most devastating germ warfare attack. He knew only that first the rats died, then the people died?often covered with purple splotches and lying in their own vomit. Locals called it the "rat plague." In fact it was the bubonic plague?the Black Death that killed a third of Europe's population in the 14th century?revived and spread by the Japanese military...