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Word: ratted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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They found that a molecule of ferritin, an iron-containing protein, is synthesized within five and a half minutes after its entry into the liver of a rat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scientists Clock Protein Synthesis | 12/1/1958 | See Source »

...question of speech scarcely matters anyhow, for La Plume generally favors the international language of leers and leaps, pratfalls and double takes, cupboards and manholes. In a season deafened with the rat-tat-tat of drearily mechanical gag shows, this alone would call for modest thanks. But, in La Plume's case, the quality of merci is not strained; the show shines by more than contrast. If a fair number of its exhibits fall rather flat, even they have high spots to fall from, and acrobatic performers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Revue in Manhattan, Nov. 24, 1958 | 11/24/1958 | See Source »

Curley Smells a Rat...

Author: By Jonathan Beecher, | Title: The Harvard History of James M. Curley | 11/22/1958 | See Source »

Curley was deeply touched by their generosity and good judgment; he presented each of them, in return, with an autographed document. But when his visitors asked for more signed doctuments for other members of their students' committee, the Mayor began to smell a rat. He noticed that they didn't talk like anyone from B.C. that he knew. And indeed they didn't. They were prospective members of the Harvard Lampoon out about the pranks that characterize that magazine's bi-annual Fools' Week. As for the urn, it was and remains the sturdy and much-used punch bowl usually...

Author: By Jonathan Beecher, | Title: The Harvard History of James M. Curley | 11/22/1958 | See Source »

...scandal of which Holly is innocent breaks over her blonde head and Ybarra-Jaeger checks out. In that heartbroken moment she is defenseless and touching. " 'But oh gee, golly goddamn,' she said, jamming a fist into her mouth like a bawling baby, I did love him. The rat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bad Little Good Girl | 11/3/1958 | See Source »

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