Word: ratting
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...Rat skins were being used for shoe leather...
...cartoons in the show were a cross section of rabid Isolationist Fitzpatrick's daily stint, from bulge-jawed Mussolinis and neurasthenic Hitlers to war-racked skeletons, the bums and shady politicians of St. Louis' own legendary Rat Alley. Fellow cartoonists took their hats off to Fitzpatrick's slick technique of getting his points over without capsizing his cartoons with explanatory captions. Fitzpatrick's muscular draftsmanship and Doré-like spaciousness (see cut) are, if not art, something close...
Night falls and tomorrow is zero day. We embus, wish each other luck and proceed to our next point by moonlight. The whole force is parked there in the open and what a marvelous sight it was. ... At 12:30 I awake to the sound of scurrying feet and rat-a-tat-tat, peeng, bang! We're being fired on from the bush, and shots and ricochets are whizzing past our heads. I'm perfectly unafraid. . . . Our troops near the bush return the fire and the Banda . . . fade into the night. ... At 2:30 a.m. enemy firing starts...
...vague but universal presumption that wild animals in their natural environment do not suffer from diseases such as afflict ourselves and our domestic animals." Dissecting warm specimens in the jungle, instead of pickled specimens in a laboratory, he found a startling incidence of internal parasites, anatomical abnormalities (e.g., a rat with one lung), tumors, deficiency diseases, etc. He believes that it would be useful for science to undertake a wider study of the diseases of truly wild animals in order to learn the control of disease in our own world. His book shows that patient naturalists can still find under...
...regular Guildsman who wrote a sympathetic article on the anti-Communist best seller Out of the Night. Next day as he seated himself at the copy desk, a fellow writer held aloft a sheet of copy paper for him to read. On it was scrawled in big letters: RAT...