Word: beastes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there was "Break" Brookenridge working away at a coup de grace on Jack Palmore's door, when he hears, a low laugh. There's Jack right behind him, club in hand. I tell ya the second floor ain't safe for man nor beast...
...problem to Brazil's allies, who lack the shipping to satisfy her yearning. But Brazilians have begun to feel strongly, and the U.S. cannot well ignore such expressions of passion as General Rabello's: "There must be no half measure: either defeat and the claws of the beast on our shoulders or victory and the unconditional surrender agreed upon in Casablanca and the possibility of reconstructing a just world for free...
Within the classroom thus secluded, Teacher on occasion used all the psychological aids to pedagogy that have proved effective with bird dogs and masses. When the "Fascist Beast" was unchained on the side away from Russia, in 1939, Pravda and company kept the Russians constantly informed of the "War in Europe" waged by the "Plutocratic Aggressors," i.e., France and England. When military foresight required that the Mannerheim Line be taken, the Russian press reported at length on a "glorious Finnish revolution," wholly mythical, against the "White Guard bandits," i.e., the Finnish government. When Pravda, last fall, editorialized several times...
Elephants hate war. The Burmese elephant is an especially sensitive beast who loathes mechanized transport of any kind. He refuses to go near trucks, and he trumpets, shies and runs away when he hears even a distant airplane motor...
Europe's Stomach Muscles. Churchill's favorite strategy is long standing and well known. Ever since the time of Gallipoli he has favored getting at the beast through his "soft underbelly." Actually that underbelly is not soft now. By last week it had become apparent that victory in Tunisia, which probably must precede any invasion of southern Europe, might be delayed long enough-perhaps into June-to let the underbelly become much harder...