Word: ratting
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Wherever men go, there go rats. From treetops, from roofs and out of small. dark holes, rats watch most of men's activities. But thus far the private lives of rats have been more or less hidden from most men. Last week the U.S. Public Health Service was preparing to publicize the rat's privacy; almost finished was a series of PHS movies about the rat's domestic life...
...100th anniversary of the landing of the English sparrows in the U.S. Finicky ornithologists regard the immigrants as neither sparrows nor even especially English. They are weaver finches, originally from Africa, and have made a great success in life by attaching themselves, like the dog, the bedbug and the rat, to the fortunes of man. They colonized Europe long ago, swarming in its cities paved with nutritious refuse. In 1850 they reached Brooklyn...
...aroused Audubon Society, a dangerous adversary, considered the English sparrow Bird Enemy No. 1, outranking the feral cat and the small boy with an air rifle. Pamphlets blackened the sparrow's name. Said Biologist Ned Dearborn of the U.S. Biological Survey: "The English sparrow among birds, like the rat among mammals, is cunning, destructive and filthy...
...their money. Dr. George L.. Clark, head of the division of analytical chemistry at the University of Illinois, reported that the Magic Spikes he had tested contained no vrilium-whatever it might be-but merely ½,000th of a cent's worth of barium chloride, a cheap rat poison. Dr. Bernard Waldman, head of the nuclear physics laboratory at the University of Notre Dame, aimed a Geiger counter at six "radioactive" Magic Spikes in the courtroom. The judge and jurors heard no telltale rat...
...home of a neighbor, screaming "I shot him!" Soon afterward an Air Force MP found Andy's body in the Madsen living room close by a note written by Yvette: "I know my husband will beat me up. My only defense is to shoot him, the heel, the rat, the low creature...