Word: beak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...retaliate. "Anything for Jesus," he called out hoarsely, and rode on, bleeding and battered, supported in his saddle by white-faced fellow soldiers. Although pelted with mud, the bandsmen continued to blow bravely on their instruments. General William Booth stood up in the carriage, beard flying and beak nose pointing to heaven, to direct his soldiers of the gospel and lead them, bedraggled and bloody, into Sheffield's Albert Hall for a revival meeting...
Died. Frederick Porter ("the Weasel") Wensley, 84, beak-nosed master sleuth, onetime head of Scotland Yard's famed C.I.D. (Criminal Investigation Department), who solved many of Britain's most famous crimes during his long (1887-1929) service; in London. No theorizing Hercule Poirot, Wensley served a rough & tumble apprenticeship in London's thug-infested East End during the Jack the Ripper era, wrote about it all in Forty Years of Scotland Yard...
...Like Drink." Western Europeans last week relaxed on the beaches, went fishing or drank beer in the warm evenings. But amid this summer somnolence, people anxiously waited to see how the great debate in Washington would go. The man who perhaps waited most anxiously of all was a beak-nosed French general, eight times wounded and 41 times decorated, whom few Americans knew...
...having a good sagacious laugh. No example of the species Scotiaptex Nebulosa, or for that matter no example of any predatory bird, has even had much real affection for the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. But now, the ASPCA is patting this owl's sharp beak reassuringly and mumbling something about "God's Law." Any owl worthy of his feathers must appreciate the joke...
Pundit Walter Lippmann, who sometimes writes like a pellucid angel, sometimes like poor Poll, got his claws tangled with his beak last week in the New York Herald Tribune: "It was never possible, we must I believe suppose, that we could induce the Russians to lift the blockade unless...