Word: ratting
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Barker stopped arguing. He came of intelligent stock (Old English sheepdog) but had a one-track mind. He was not as sharp, for instance, as Squeaker, who could discuss philology and human nature. But Squeaker was a rat, which makes a big difference...
...Barber stands at the opposite pole from Huckleberry Finn or David Copperfield, and it may strike some people as more precious than priceless. But the reader can justly tell Author Reid, in the words of Squeaker, the learned rat: "It's universally granted that you're a most agreeable little boy-much above the average...
Arizona are from Asia? 3) In what mysterious way does the kangaroo rat triumph over the total absence of water...
Through the years on shipboard, Wouk had been pecking away at a novel. Aurora Dawn was written in an 18th century style as quaint as a minuet, but it dealt with a 20th century subject, "the contrast between the rat-race values of the radio-advertising world and the stable values of an Old Testament hillbilly prophet who gets mixed up with it." Wouk thinks of it as "a compendium of first-novel errors," but the Book-of-the-Month Club grabbed it. From that day to this, Wouk has pursued "the hard, borderline trade" of writing with monastic dedication...
...Yellow Rose of Texas (Mitch Miller orchestra and chorus; Columbia). With a rat-a-tat-tat of snare drums and a fifelike tweedle, the Texan (presumably) chorus chants about the girl back home. The tune, which comes from the Civil War, is so appealing that it has risen to No. 3 bestseller in a few weeks. Perhaps march tempos will replace the rock-'n-roll fashion...