Word: ratting
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...Dumbwaiter and The Collection, by Harold Pinter. In these two one-acters, Britain's most provocative dramatist puts his characters in an enigmatic rat's maze where they twist, turn and stumble, seeking each other and the truth with absurd and terrifying results...
...center of the dish lies a big fat juicy roast rat...
After 25 years of servitude, Bette twigs her sister's game. The shock, the realization that she has wasted her life, knocks a screw loose. With the cunning of unreason she connives a hideous revenge. Day by day she tantalizes her sister with sumptuous meals, but after the rat and the parakeet the cripple is afraid to eat. Day by day the victim grows weaker. When she calls for help, Bette rips out the phone. When she crawls downstairs, Bette ties her up and tapes her mouth shut. When she warns the maid, Bette cracks the woman...
...swept abruptly back from her forehead and fixed with jewel-studded pins above and behind her ears. The effect was a kind of outsized ponytail with the ends curled back along Meg's shapely neck. "It can't be all her," whispered one Lady, smelling a royal rat. "Of course it's not," said another. Only her hairdresser knew for sure...
...other girl was Sylvia Pratt, warm-spirited daughter of a noted Boston doctor, and Kemper married her soon after he graduated in 1935-132nd in a class of 275. A "sand-rat lieutenant," he was soon running a cram school for getting enlisted men into West Point, did so well that in 1939 the Point yanked him out of the infantry to teach history. He dutifully earned a Columbia master's degree in 1942 while itching to go to war. In its wisdom, the Army put him in G-2 with the prickly job of organizing U.S. historians...