Word: ratted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crowd of about 100 neighbors and workers from the area looked on, the picket line of BRA opponents chantedslogans which included "Stay and fight Kevin White," and "Eisenstadt: Stop that Rat." When the police arrived at 9:45 a. m. the group spontaneously huddied at the two doors to the Redgate house and yelled "No evictions; stay and fight," at the approaching TPF officers. Captain Rachalski's warnings by bullhorn could not be heard over the chanting...
...have new boots, you don't get. As on your papers, you don't have four dates in a day. But you are a Cliffie and you have synthetic mind and you fuse all these friends into one Other who does better and has more. It's a rat race, but the rats are on a treadmill and the cheese is imaginary...
...gnawing holes in buildings and contaminating food, Texarkana's rats cause about $3 million of damage a year. With their eleven internal parasites and 18 kinds of fleas, they expose people to rat-bite fever, murine typhus, bubonic plague and other diseases. Yet the city's residents have become appallingly adapted to the rats. As one retired Negro farmer casually puts it: "They play like ants behind my house...
...Pied Piper. Part of the problem is political. Because the city straddles the state line, it has separate mayors in Texas and Arkansas, two district city councils and health departments. To fight rats effectively, both city governments obviously have to cooperate. But the Texas side of town has budgeted only $4,000 for rat control while Arkansas begrudges $1,500. Says Doyle Purifoy, in charge of the Arkansas program: "We've got the rats on the run." Presumably to Texas...
...People here just don't give a damn," sighs W. T. Westbrook, sanitation director of Bowie County (Texas). He cares, but is clearly no Pied Piper. When he arrived on the fetid scene two years ago, he personally showed community leaders the filth, started keeping count of rat-bite victims and battled city hall for revisions in the sanitation code. All in vain. So he organized his own two-man rat patrol...