Word: ratted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...party-line attack on Eisenhower at the summit, it was-as Moscow and Peking intended it to be-a blow to the U.S. image. Allies were apprehensive because the U.S. had allowed itself to get in such a fix. Peking and Moscow were jubilant; one called the President "a rat," the other called him "a snake...
Infantile Jeers. Last week, when President Eisenhower flew to Formosa, Peking demonstrated its view of peaceful coexistence by likening Eisenhower to "a rat running across the street; everyone wants to step on him and squash him." As Red artillerymen threw shells of "contempt" on Chinese Nationalist positions at Quemoy, they shouted (according to Radio Peking): "Eisenhower, go back. Fire! U.S. aggressors, get out of Formosa. Fire! Get out of Japan. Fire! Get out of Korea. Fire! Get out of Asia. Fire! We shall liberate Formosa. Fire...
...know that the Banner of Blimpism (a blue funk on a field of choler) still flies, Britons by the thousands crowded in to see the spoof, and doubtless the film's American distributors would welcome a similar seal of disapproval from the U.S. State Department. At any rat Producers John and Roy Boulting, wh subverted the army in Private's Progress and big labor in I'm All Right, Jack, are as disrespectful-and funny-as ever on the subject of statecraft...
There is something magnificently arrogant about the way Boud and Decca extracted the last yard of mileage out of their hyphens as they joined forces-Fascist and Communist-dedicated to the destruction of aristocracy. Boud, before she met Hitler, insisted on taking her pet rat to debutante balls. With Philip Toynbee (Historian Arnold's son), Decca raided Eton College chapel and decamped with a carload of top hats...
...matter of fact, persons attempting to find Huck Finn in this picture will be, to say the least, disappointed. As written, Huck was a young river rat who lived in a wharf barrel and smelt like his surroundings. As played by Actor Hodges, a stage child who got his start on Broadway in The Music Man, the prototype of frontier boyhood is a freckled-faced mother's darling who reeks of soap and suburban charm, and who looks exactly the way Producer Goldwyn wanted him to look: like "a Missouri Peter Pan." But Finn fans will forget this minor...