Word: beast
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recently became so fired up by the delaying tactics of the House of Lords that he declared in the House of Commons that the Lords had "put a tiger in my tank." In a straight-faced editorial, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung feared that the tiger campaign could unleash "the beast of prey in drivers." Riding on the tiger tale, Esso stations in Europe are pumping record volumes; in France, April sales of Esso Extra rose 32% over last year. Italian motorists now drive up and ask station attendants simply for a pieno di tigre-a tankful of tiger. Italy...
...Widener Library at 7 p.m. this evening. Eliott Forbes will lead the singers in a program featuring some of the lighter music in the Club's repertoire. Included in the concert will be football songs, chansons, old English drinking songs, and, ultimately Fair Harvard. "I" will soothe the beast of your exam period...
With trembling fingers, Biff pulled the sheet of paper from the beast's born and turned it face up. For the moment the forgot Karandas and the angry crowd; for the moment Bundie's attention was riveted only to the message scrawled in a nervous hand. He could almost hear the maker of that desperate writing speak the words: "Fool! Zair iss no time ant much danchur. I could not vait any longer, I vill call you again...
...Rhinoceros?" gasped Biff, looking backwards over his head at the green beast that sheltered him. "Rhinoceros? I though the hippopotamus had the horn." And then his heart missed a beat: for impaled on the horn of the animal, and flapping gently in the breeze, was a large piece of green and white paper...
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