Word: ratting
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...homecoming Michael Blundell (see box), the moderate who accepted the new plan in London and bravely agreed to try to sell it to his fellow whites. One kept booming through a bull horn: "Shame, shame; shame on you! We have been betrayed by you, Mr. Blundell!" Others cried, "You rat!," and their leader, wiry little highlands farmer, Major Jim Hughes, 63, hurled a handful of coins at Blundell's feet, shouting, "Here are 30 pieces of silver for you, Judas-go on, pick them up!" (Said Blundell later: "It's due to his living at 8,300 feet...
...been having an expense-account special (bird's-nest soup, aromatic chicken) at Mang Wing-tei's in Hong Kong, when in came "this big, storklike American wearing a black and blue mandarin's costume. He said he was celebrating the Year of the Rat. Irving Hoffman was his name...
...Boarding school and Harvard.'' The boy is four years old, and already papa has him concerned about college. At 17 he may well become what one educator calls the U.S. high school senior-"A bundle of nerves in a rat race." Never before have so many Americans coveted the 700-year-old Artium Bacca-laureus-and never before has the competition been stiffer...
Eighteen months ago, when the Mizo Hills burst into spectral bloom, the frightened tribesmen-70% of whom are Christians, mostly Baptist converts-frantically appealed to the Assam state government for help. When the bamboo last bloomed, in 1910-11, and before that in 1860-62, they said, the rats came. Assam's bureaucrats dismissed such prophecies as superstition. But the prophecies have come true: thousands of rats have left the jungle, attacked the clearings, and stripped everything bare. Too late, the state government sent in rat poison; what was not "lost in transit" fell into the hands of profiteers...
...hero is a young British airman (Denholm Elliott), on holiday in Spain, who sees a runaway truck miss a pretty girl by inches, smells a rat, sets up as a private nose, and, like a questing Quixote with a paunchy Panza (Peter Lorre) at his heels, sets out to rescue his damsel in distress. In the course of the hero's aro-mantic maunderings, the customer gets quite an eyeful of Spain: the Alhambra, the Alcazaba, the Cathedral at Malaga, the bullfights at Pamplona. He also gets a snootful: apples, peaches, brandy, wine, tobacco, shoe polish, peppermint, roses, garlic...