Word: ratting
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Another trapped rat was a female and a veteran of the species. Because it was her tenth arrest for pilfering church funds, she faced a sentence of life imprisonment. "Mon Dieu!" she remonstrated. "You police have no respect any more for religion...
Decisive Step. In Milton, Fla., councilmen arguing over a rat-catching program abruptly approved it when a large rat ran around the council table...
...most lethal rat-killer known is odorless, tasteless "1080" (TIME, Sept. 17), recently developed by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. The same basic poison was simultaneously isolated as the toxic element in a deadly South African plant called "Gifblaar." But 1080, like atomic energy, is almost too hot to handle. It is ideal for murderers. A human victim, without smelling or tasting a thing, could probably be done in by 1/50...
...years this Amery, a charming chap in his cups, had been wrong. Known to his friends as "The Rat," he left Harrow at 16, hurried to Lausanne to do the night spots. After 74 traffic violations had been charged against him, he was barred from England's roads...
...Hush, mother," cried her daughter. "Someone may hear you! Besides, I think the rats are going to attack again." In tense silence the two women waited. In silence, millions of rats, heads erect, whiskers vibrant, beady eyes alert, waited for that mass impulse, unreasoned but irresistible, which would be the signal for their hordes to remove these last human obstructions to the rat world...