Word: beavering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hungary at last, he joined the Magyars and executed his most famous exploit after accepting a challenge of the Turkish commander to single combat. At the first charge, Smith's lance, he says, "passed the Turke throw the sight of his Beaver, face, head and all, that he fell dead to the ground." Whereupon Smith cut off the fellow's head and presented it to the Hungarian commander, "who kindly accepted it." Smith says he made the same disposition of two other Turks who sallied out to avenge their chief, and in consequence got a coat of arms...
...Beaver Falls...
Fifteen years ago, Lord Beaverbrook's powerful Daily Express (circ. 4,000,000) tried hard to convince the world that Hitler was not dangerous. Last week Beaver-brook's Express set the tone for wanting to do business with the Communists, in words that Nye Bevan could not top: "In Britain," said the Express, "the people want world peace . . . The conviction prevails that the world is ready for peace and that governments, whatever their character, must yield to the popular will on this issue . . . Statesmen must obey their master, the public, when the master has made...
...York Herald Tribune a beaver was almost incognito as "the furry, paddle-tailed mammal." CJ In the New York Times, phonograph records became "the noisy disks...
...promising if not too imaginative continuation of a recent Hollywood tendency to take a few cameras off famous faces and train them on the fascinating visage of nature itself. The pacemaker of this trend: Walt Disney's series on animal and vegetable life (Beaver Valley, Nature's Half-Acre, etc.). All these films have their faults; most of them, The Sea included, are burdened with a spoken commentary that comes little short of patronizing God. Yet they are giving ailing Hollywood a much-needed transfusion of real lifeblood...