Word: ratting
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...came for one Ginza doll last week when. as she put it. "I felt something playing footsie with me under the table." Said she: "I figured it was the customer; but the game went on after he excused himself. Then I looked down, and there was this huge rat trying to pry some meat out from under my foot. Sure. I knew we had rats, but when they get that familiar, I quit...
Melons & Minks. They have been getting more importunate every day. Some 2,000,000 strong, twice as numerous as the district's daytime human population, the Ginza rat kingdom seems to have been caught up in a revolution of rodent expectations. No longer content with their network of underground rivers and sewers, armies of rats now prowl the Ginza every night after the cabarets have closed and before department stores open. Rats with affluent tastes gorge themselves on such fancy groceries as melons, leather furniture and mink coats. One gormandizing rat pack even held up construction...
Last week Tokyo's sanitation department joined forces with a passel of private exterminators in an all-out campaign to keep the Ginza for people. With military precision, anti-rat guerrillas fanned out through darkened department stores in stockinged feet, coordinating their offensive by means of walkie-talkies. "This is C Team calling B Team." whispered one communications man to the unit on the floor below him. "I hear rats on the eastern side of the floor scurrying down. Close door immediately. Over...
...fall out-which made it easier to treat ringworm of the scalp. After such treatment hundreds of patients became ill, and scores died. Thallium salts were shunted from the medicine cabinet to the poison shelf. In 1957, the Texas legislature cut the allowable dose of thallium sulfate in a rat-poison mixture from 3% to 1%; the U.S. Department of Agriculture did the same in 1960. But even the weaker mixture is dangerous: it takes only half an ounce of chemically adulterated cookies to kill an average three-year-old. And 15 of the cases in the A.M.A. Journal study...
...majors and uses civilian professors in academic departments. But all department heads are naval officers ("often uninformed"), who come and go every three years. Tackling this problem, the Navy is now out to find Annapolis a civilian academic dean "of national rank." Boroff is not sanguine about the "Brother Rat mentality" at Annapolis, where foreign language study (a first-rate department) is known as "dago," and the catch-all department of English, history and government is called the "Bull Department...