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Word: ratting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...story of the turtles' birth certainly strays from the superhero script. They started out as aquarium pets, but mutated after falling into a pool of radioactive glop in a New York sewer. They were raised by a rat, Splinter, who taught them Ninja skills to fight crime...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Survey: Mutant Ninja Turtles Inspire Violence | 3/19/1991 | See Source »

...addition to the organized resistance, many Kuwaitis operated on their own. Since Iraqi soldiers examining cars at checkpoints frequently stole whatever was in sight, some Kuwaitis added rat poison to bottles of orange juice and then hid them in the trunk. Iraqi sentries would discover and seize the bottles -- and presumably drink the tainted liquid later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kuwait Chaos and Revenge | 3/18/1991 | See Source »

Upon further experimentation, Michaelson injected the rat livers with turpentine, a toxic substance. He found that he could thereby select for fibrinogen-producing cells, which fight the poison...

Author: By Ivan Oransky, | Title: Organic Cells Compete for Survival, Too | 3/4/1991 | See Source »

Titanics with Mente at The Rat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Clubs | 2/21/1991 | See Source »

Bleary-eyed zombies are all over campus, yet some lunatics still undermine sleep, calling for a 24-hour Harvard library. Do they not realize the transparency of their plot? It it succeeds, sleeping will indeed be tantamount to conceding defeat in the undergraduate rat race. SIESTA will fight this pernicious evil to the bitter...

Author: By Richard A. Primus, | Title: Are You Tired? I'm Tired. | 2/4/1991 | See Source »

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