Word: ratted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ratty. In Goldsboro, N.C., a drunk, unable to pay his $1.40 fine, was locked up to "sit it out." While sitting it out, he saw a rat with something in its mouth poke its head through a hole in the wall...
Norman Raymond Frederick Maier is a man who has made his name & fame by driving rats crazy. For his experiments in rat frustration, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, in 1938 awarded him a $1,000 prize. Now Professor Maier, a University of Michigan psychologist, believes that his studies of rats have led him to a solution of the No. 1 contemporary problem in human frustration: how to cure a defeated Germany of the disease of Naziism. Though his plan leaves many a question unanswered, it is a stimulating contribution to the simmering debate on a generous...
Maier's plan derives from experiments which upset orthodox psychological notions. He forced rats to jump at one of two differently marked cards, one of which led to food while the other only bruised the rats' tender snouts. Then he switched the cards. Result: the rats became wildly neurotic. When repeatedly frustrated, a rat would throw itself blindly again & again at an unyielding card, even though there was food in plain sight beside...
...supposed, but in kind. Normally, a human being prevented from getting what he wants either finds a way around the obstacle or gives up his goal in favor of an attainable substitute. But a thoroughly thwarted individual loses all reasoning capacity and attacks his obstacle like a blindly baffled rat. The more he is punished, the stronger his fixation becomes...
Mexicana. In Mexico City, Gráfico reported that the Health Department was about to clamp down on "The Last Supper," a popular rat poison...