Word: ratting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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BREAKOUT is the seasonal visit from Charles Bronson, this time more expansive than usual as a Texas border rat who is hired to bust Robert Duvall out of a Mexican prison. This caper-based on fact-also has the distinction of having inspired a real-life jailbreak in Michigan two weeks ago. Life is not always scrupulous about imitating art, however. The real convicts got caught...
...have been around a long time now, and we are still the most civilized country in Europe. You can feel safe here as nowhere else, and that is why so many Americans make their homes with us. We are still your best ally, and we won't rat on you if it comes to a showdown. We don't talk much these days about the "special relationship," but everyone knows that it still exists. We share more than just a common language-our men have died side by side in two wars. As for our being "ungovernable," Eric...
...also a master woofer. "This is a golf course where a poor man can come and get wealthy," says one foe, trying to set up Fat Daddy for a fall. "Boy, you keep messing around with me," says Cofield, "and I'll make your pocket bigger than a rat hole...
...anti-Semitism was simply "intellectual and moral carelessness" is practically an insult to Mosley's intelligence. His own son, Novelist Nicholas Mosley, was closer to the mark when he said of his father, "While the right hand dealt with grandiose ideas and glory, the left hand let the rat out of the sewer...
...relieved he felt when his job (at Newsweek and later the Saturday Evening Post) legitimately took him away from home, freeing him briefly from his continuing responsibility. Suzanne admits that she once considered suicide and writes: "A person living with hemophilia can become paralyzed with fright, like a rat in a maze who has met with an electric shock at every innocent-looking exit until finally he simply turns frantically in circles, afraid to try any more doors...