Word: ratted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last fortnight, in the Rockefeller Journal of Experimental Medicine, Drs. Claus W. Jungeblut and Murray Sanders of Columbia University announced the next step: successful immunization of monkeys against polio. First they took a strain of live polio virus deadly to monkeys and injected it into a cotton rat. He frisked around apparently in perfect health. Then they passed a portion of his polio-saturated brain on to Rat No. II. He became mildly sick. A suspension of his brain, in turn, was given to Rat No. III. He became paralyzed, and his brain, when given to mice, killed them...
...newly-mounted reptile, eight feet long and four feet high, belonged to a sterile branch of the early family which later gave rise to mammals and which is known to scientists as dicynodonts, or two-tuskers. The dicynodents ranged from the size of a rat to about the size of a small horse, and reached their greatest development in South Africa...
Twelve students refused assignments during the summer, six because they had already signed leases for rooms in rat houses, Miss Spidell said...
...SAFE?" Another sapper, sitting astride a bomb in its cavity, suddenly shouted: "Get me out of here." His helpers hauled him out with ropes in record time and were set to run when he pointed to the bottom of the hole and said: "There's a ruddy great rat down there." But the hero of the week was a 39-year-old Canadian engineer named Lieut. Robert Davies, a man who says he has "a healthy respect for bombs." He had killed many bombs but the bomb he demolished last week, besides being the biggest yet dug up, threatened...
...station house the fat man yammered and foamed: "I was never a rat. I was never a rat in my life. I was never a rat. If they leave me alone, I'll go away-I'll never squeal. But if they don't leave me alone I'll squeal. They'll kill me! They'll kill my wife and children...