Word: ratting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...frosted-flake voices. And while the G-men were singing like canaries, the senators were having a, er, whale of a time overturning some other sacred cows, like the FDA and the McCain-Feingold bill. The House had some trouble keeping NASA in check ? David Wolf, that dirty rat that actually wanted to go to the Mir, slipped through Rep. James F. Sensenbrenner's fingers like a stratospheric salmon...
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...squirming Rees-Jones that help was on the way; he interrupted himself to stop two bystanders, not photographers, from opening the car doors. "Don't do that. You can kill them if you move them," he warned. But he had come back too late to stop one paparazzo, Romauld Rat, from opening Diana's door and taking her pulse--and her picture. "A young North African man began shouting, saying it was wrong to take pictures and that he should help the victims instead...
...proportion would soon return. Or at least it would in my house. The true comparison, of course, is not with Kennedy but with Kennedy's wife. (And consider the passive figure of Mr. Zapruder, his shutter innocently open on the grassy knoll, as opposed to the figure of Mr. Rat, the paparazzo.) But in the immediate aftermath, one experienced the pity and terror associated with a major loss. You felt stunned from nowhere, as if something had veered in out of your blind spot...