Word: ratted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will scatter just like the whores do," said a veteran nightclub owner, Maurice Cohen. "They'll move upstairs and downstairs with you." To prevent such an occurrence, civic leaders have given thought to transplanting the entire Block onto a showboat, or a nearby pier, or, possibly, onto a rat-infested island known as Fort Carroll...
...afther which rat in heaven; hollowed be thy mane; thy dingkum come; thy will be done on thear as it is in heaven; give us this day our daily dread and frogvie us pour press-stares as we frogview those who press-stare against...
...boots, you don't get A's on your papers, you don't have four dates in a day. But you are a Cliffie and you have a 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...
...their laboratories. Indiana University holds the patents on Crest toothpaste, Rutgers on the drug Streptomycin. The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation at the University of Wisconsin provides the university with over $2 million annually, much of it derived from royalties on inventions made in the Foundation labs. (Warfarin, a leading rat poison, is the best known of these...
...rat anyway, with so many better possibilities around? As one possible successor, Lockard proposes the oriental tree shrew, which is readily tamed, breeds promiscuously throughout the year and, on the evolutionary map, lies nearer to man than does the rat. To focus on the rat, when less than 1% of all species has ever been impounded in a laboratory, says Lockard, is like examining only the earth and then generalizing about the universe...