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Word: ratting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Nausea? Little wonder. The glistening balls mistaken for a snack that day in Nevada were later identified as pack-rat middens -- globs of crystallized pack-rat urine containing sticks, plant fragments, bones and animal dung. Still, while the middens failed to make the grade as cuisine, they have begun to excel in another role -- as a kind of natural time capsule...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nature's Time Capsules | 4/6/1992 | See Source »

With his stocky build, thick neck and gravelly voice, Salvatore Gravano lives up to his nickname, "Sammy the Bull." But as he said on the witness stand last week, his enemies are more likely to start calling him by a new moniker, "Sammy the Rat." In five days of often chilling testimony, the former Gambino family underboss calmly described the secret inner workings and rituals of La Cosa Nostra and provided gory details of the 19 killings he admitted taking part in. Most of all, he tried to hammer nails into the legal coffin of John Gotti, the head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trials Why Is Sammy the Bull Singing? | 3/16/1992 | See Source »

...rat," Gravano said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trials Why Is Sammy the Bull Singing? | 3/16/1992 | See Source »

...Rat--528 Commonwealth Ave., Kenmore Square, Boston. Hollywood Squares and 12 String Guitar on March 12. Childhood, Jigglescreen, The Barnies, and Mother on March 13. Parade, Judgmental, and the Allens on March 14. Rick Derringer and the Fighting Cocks on March...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Everywhere But Harvard | 3/12/1992 | See Source »

...Sigourney Weaver in Aliens, Linda Hamilton in Terminator 2, Jessica Lange and Sally Field in Country and Places in the Heart. Overall, Faludi finds that female characters were more likely to be portrayed as obsessed with career at the expense of family (Broadcast News), burning out from the rat race (Baby Boom), abandoning their children (Three Men and a Baby) or exploring the rewards of prostitution (Pretty Woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The War Against Feminism | 3/9/1992 | See Source »

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