Word: rat
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...wanted to talk about this, but I couldn't do it in six panels of a cartoon. So I started drafting my thoughts as a novel. I'd written one--Harry, the Rat with Women--a few years before. It had some success, but I hated the writing of it. It wasn't a natural form for me. When I had 300 pages of my new novel down, I went to Yaddo, the writers' colony in upstate New York, to finish it. But after I'd been there 24 hours and read through it, I knew there wasn...
...Richard Luttrell A veteran at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial I was a tunnel rat (responsible for clearing out enemy tunnels) in the 1st Brigade of the 101st Airborne Infantry. We were passing by a monastery when mortars started flying at us. Guys were screaming and yelling, "Mom!" I was 18 years old. I was scared. I had a rocket launcher, and I fired it into the monastery. It went quiet. When we went in to look, there were a lot of dead. A French priest and some nuns. That's what war is. You can't describe it. It sounds...
Subject: Despite all my rage, I am still just a rat in a cage...
...Rat Race...
...prior to 1973—before Radcliffe College’s historic agreement with Harvard which eventually lead to her demise as an independent undergraduate institution? Why did women’s grades decrease while the percentage of Dean’s listed students increased dramatically? I smell a rat. Maybe Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield ’53 has inadvertently assisted the Women’s Studies committee and its research... again...