Word: ratting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...recalls. "I remember my dad didn't want me to play travel hockey--he thought it was too big of a commitment for a little kid, I guess. You ought to see him now, though: he got into sponsoring my teams, and now he's the biggest rink-rat you'll ever find...
Smith, a self-described "movie rat" dropped out of film school in Vancouver to make his movie in New Jersey on a budget...
Unlike Roiphe and Wurtzel, Stone has taken a long, healthy break from Harvard since she graduated from Adams House in 1985. She steered clear of both the sheltered world of academia and of the Manhattan rat-race, sucking up to few trends and pandering to no one. She had no real tunnel vision of her career; she only knew that when she graduated from Harvard she wanted to live in Latin America and/or be involved with filmmaking. Neither of those followed directly from her academic work at Harvard: she concentrated in social studies and wrote her thesis on working women...
...Carter went absent without leave, rode a motorcycle to Durban and, calling himself David, became a disk jockey. He longed to see his family but felt too ashamed to return. One day after he lost his job, he swallowed scores of sleeping pills, pain-killers and rat poison. He survived. He returned to the S.A.D.F. to finish his service and was injured in 1983 while on guard duty at air force headquarters in Pretoria. A bomb attributed to the A.N.C. had exploded, killing 19 people. After leaving the service, Carter got a job at a camera supply shop and drifted...
...Cruelty" charges dropped against rat-killing N.J. homeowner...