Word: beastly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...attic, canny Scottish beast...
...tore on, paused before the English-language Iraq Times, and rolled paraffin under the steel doors (the Reds came well prepared), setting it afire. An automatic weapon chattered at the rioters from atop the police station. The mob, roaring like a wounded beast, rolled massively to the police station, set it in flames, tore apart three policemen as they scuttled out, and beheaded one of the bodies. A comparative handful of Reds, commanding an army of malcontents, had all but taken over ancient Baghdad, a city...
Twenty-five thousand miles an hour is more speed than a single rocket can make, but long before World War II, the space men thought of a trick: the multi-stage rocket. This is a "beast"* that shoots upward with a smaller beast attached to its nose. When the fuel of the mother rocket is gone, the second rocket fires and begins its flight. It is already moving fast, so the energy in its own fuel gives it greater speed than a single-stage rocket. A three-stage rocket will do even better...
...balmy spring afternoon sometime in the early 30's a young woman sat on the grass at Bronx Zoo sketching a female rhinoceros. The rhino had been making "silly squeaks," something which had particularly impressed the artist, when suddenly the broad beast charged to the bars and tried to drag the young woman into the cage...
Disproved. In Rouen, France, Policeman René Collomb put his hand inside the lion's cage at the.zoo to show his little daughter that the lion wasn't a "nasty" beast, got it clawed...