Word: ratted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...huge and diverse class of chemicals-including many fatty substances and most adrenal and sex hormones-having one thing in common: a four-ring cluster of carbon atoms, known as "the steroid nucleus." Other attached atoms give each steroid its distinctive character (see diagram). By growing rat-liver cells in the test tube, Dr. Bloch learned that they make cholesterol from the much simpler acetate ion (acetic acid minus a hydrogen ion). "My work since then," he says, "has been on the processes that the cell uses to manufacture the cholesterol molecule. This is a fantastically complex sequence of approximately...
...Paris, Irish Novelist Honor Tracy's favorite smell is the musty odor of the Metro on rainy days; in Spain, she prefers the fragrance of open sewers. "A vision comes," she writes, "an enchanting still life of broken glass and pomegranate rinds with a dead rat floating in iridescent water, and beckons to me sweetly...
...mighty schlemiels from little schlepps grow. Then there was Breathless! Belmondo played an archetypal anomie only to have Jean Seberg rat to the cops and leave him dying. Who but Belmondo could die with a smirk...
...where a man or woman can have a drink. Prostitutes used to be everywhere, but a 1958 antiprostitution law scattered them to the winds, except for those who reappeared' as "bar hostesses." In the Ginza, Akasaka, Shimbashi, Shinjuku and Asakusa districts, such swank bars and nightclubs as Le Rat Mort offer unusual entertainment at prices that can be as exorbitant as anywhere in the world...
City Councilman Alfred E. Vellucci has called for a full-scale investigation of a newly uncovered rat menace in Cambridge. He said that he had gotten "several complaints" that homes in the River St. area, particularly near the Charles River, are becoming infested with rodents...