Word: ratted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scenes that follow have an eerie air of realism. Supporting the landing at Guadalcanal, the ship undergoes her first attack by Japanese aircraft. Sirens, bugles, bosun's pipes and klaxons sound while a single blinker flashes in the darkness. The voices of fighter pilots mingle with the staccato rat-a-tat of machine-gun bullets: "I see about 40 bandits . . . Red, where are you? Dusty, Dusty . . . Dusty's gone in." Then the big, 16-in. guns belch out billows of multicolored smoke...
...National Hockey Leage is heading into the last two weeks of its regular season with the usual rat race developing at the top of the pack...
...town of Hamelin, Germany-which according to legend hired the Pied Piper in 1284-last week appointed another official rat catcher: Britain's Rentokil Ltd. It signed a $15,400 contract to rid the town of rats and mice. Applying the techniques that have boosted its annual sales to more than $11 million, Rentokil will use rodenticides, not flutes. Hamelin's children will distribute leaflets asking for aid in locating rodents, but the company has no further plans for the youngsters-unless perhaps the town lathers again rat on the deal...
Joel Martin's Jean is less impressive. Before the seduction, Jean should alternate rapidly between the poses of a Don Juan and of Joseph before Potiphar's wife; Martin's sometimes rat-a-tat monotone glosses over the subtle intonations suggested by the lines. He improves in the second half, as he finds his newly acquired mastery over Julie more agreeable to the limited feeling in his voice...
...Million Words a Year. The years of peace were never Churchill's happiest. He went back to the Tory Party. ''Anybody can rat," he explained with a grin, "but it takes a certain amount of ingenuity to re-rat." In 1924 he became Chancellor of the Exchequer, a post for whose decimal definitives ("those damn little dots") he was not well suited. His first budget was the first link in the deflationary chain that led to a general strike, a nationwide depression, and the fall of the second Baldwin government...