Word: ratting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weapon, one protested without a break in gum-chewing rhythm: "I didn't have no weapon. I just had a knife and one of them .22-caliber things." Why was one inmate beaten up? "He was not too popular. He was classified as a rat if you wanna put it that way." Governor Clyde, standing shoulder-deep in convicts, agreed that the grievances were "submitted in sincerity" and "they'll be considered." As the camera pulled back, a convict muttered something inaudible, and the broadcast ended with this exchange...
Characteristically, Bogie went out belting. On Saturday night, the Homely Hills Rat Pack--a crowd of millionaire and movie star drinking pals--met as usual at Bogie's to trade barbs with the "head rat." Lauren ("Baby") Bacall, his fourth wife who first drew his attention in To Have and Have Not when she told him, "If you want anything, all you have to do is whistle," presided as "den mother." Monday morning the children went off to school as usual...
...When the Chicago Tribune's WGN scheduled the biographical film Martin Luther for its U.S. TV première, Roman Catholics swamped the station with protesting letters, postcards and telephone calls. Sample: "We object to you showing the film because it makes a hero out of a rat." WGN abruptly canceled the movie. That set up a new clamor. Lutherans, other Protestants, some Jewish groups objected furiously, sent 1,000 telegrams of protest in a single day. The National Council of Churches called the cancellation "a blow to religious liberty." Cried an American Civil Liberties Union spokesman: "This thing...
...maharajas became known derisively as the "blackest hole of Calcutta," Oberoi saw an opportunity. He talked the hotel's liquidators into a low-cost five-year lease, although his total resources were $67 in the bank and his mortgaged Simla hotel. He tore out the Grand's rat-infested plumbing, offered typhoid-worried guests unlimited soda water even for washing, installed well-built White Russian chorus girls in the hotel's three nightclubs. World War II converted the shaky gamble into a roaring business: the Grand began bedding down 600 to 900 Allied officers, serving...
Saturation Attack. Near Hailey, Idaho, miffed because a rat was chewing up a saddle he kept in a barn, Arne Friestad let fly with a shotgun, demolished the rat-and also the barn when pellets struck a nearby box of dynamite...