Word: ratting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...helping each European nation separately, beginning with the worst risks, we will simply be pouring money down a row of rat holes, beginning with the deepest. Let the Europeans get together, figure out what they can do to help each other, and then tell us what Europe as a whole needs for recovery. If that looks like a reasonable amount, and if there is some sign that this expenditure will really get Europe on its feet, then let's go through with...
...plus handling turn-ins and requests for extra seats. It is easy to imagine that it will be doing a land office business. Unless there is a large staff on hand, the Quincy Street Emporium may be faced with the same un-ending lines that blessed last year's rat race. Much of the queueing-up might be avoided by using the mails to consummate the application-ticket exchange. Perhaps the H.A.A. intends to use such a procedure, but its announcement does not carry that implication...
...type and an individual, and every one is well-acted. There is Jaggers, the keen, comfortable and surprisingly soft-hearted lawyer; Pip as a boy, played with magnificent restraint, obedient, kind-hearted, and romantic; Miss Havisham, the grotesque bride of another day, who dies horribly in the great, old, rat-infested house. Practically every character is sympathetic and human, yet each holds a menace of grotesque evilness in himself, something that is brought out more clearly, yet just as subtly, in the movie as in the novel...
...Chicago celebrated "Rat Extermination Week," hoped to wipe out 2,000,000 rats. Aldermen toured the city in sound trucks urging everybody to pitch...
...Rat. In Oslo, Aage Hjersing was indicted as a war collaborator. Among other charges: he gave the Wehrmacht aid & comfort by selling them 64 fine Norwegian mousers...