Word: ratted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...KING RAT. A shrewd G.I. con man (George Segal) exploits his buddies for fun and profit in Writer-Director Bryan Forbes's harsh, searching drama about survival of the fittest in a Japanese prison camp during World...
...Reds & Rats. He needed support for the union and took it gladly from the Communists. "I'd rather be called a Red by a rat," he said, "than a rat by a Red." He was "Red Mike" then, one of the most radical of the American Labor Party leaders. By the time he broke with the Communists in 1948, the union was secure. The Democrats who controlled city hall-and the transit budget-were more reliable allies, and Mike became a loud antiCommunist...
...sold religious pictures in a Pennsylvania coal-mining town, later became a ditchdigger and a change maker in the New York subway system. Quill was a loyal Communist-liner when he founded the T.W.U. in 1934, once said, "I'd rather be called a Red by a rat than a rat...
...work. Since boarding the Bondwagon three years ago with Dr. No, he has become one of the most successful composers writing for films today. In the past year, his scores have accompanied an impressive flock of first-rate films, among them Séance on a Wet Afternoon, King Rat, The Knack and The Ipcress File. The LP version of Thunderball, released only a few weeks ago, is already high on the bestseller charts, following briskly on the heels of Barry's Goldfinger, which last year outsold all rock-'n'-roll albums except the Beatles...
...Rats & Goldfish. The Abbott researchers reasoned that learning and memory might be improved by boosting the supply of RNA, and hit upon a seemingly harmless chemical, magnesium pemoline (tradenamed Cylert), which increases RNA synthesis twofold or threefold. Working with Dr. Nicholas P. Plotnikoff, the researchers put Cylert in rat feed, then placed the animals in a chamber where they had to learn to avoid an electric shock. Rats on Cylert learned after only two or three trials; rats with no Cylert took eight to ten trials. Moreover, the Cylert rats remembered their lesson as long as six months, while untreated...