Word: border
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Straight into the heart of the mystery plunged the newshawk. He telephoned James McNally, the best-known pig and cattle dealer in the border counties. "Certainly," said James, making a clean breast of the business, "I ran the advertisement. The cats are for veterinary research schools in London. But I get only strays. Sure, I know most of the cats in the district, and as for their being only ten left, that's nonsense. Why," he added indignantly, "I met seven in the main street only this morning and every one looked as happy as larry...
...signed with the good Irish name McNally, but the spinsters in the border town of Carrickmacross were not to be hoodwinked. Up & down the border they sent the rumor flying: "'tis the British want our cats. They'll eat them, and they're that hard up for a rag to put on their backs, they'll even skin them." From Carrick to Ballyshannon and back to Castleblayney the old maids nodded and locked up their pets. "Men are even stealing cats to sell to the British," said one woman to a TIME correspondent last week...
Still the rains fell. Gradually, inch by boiling, brown inch, the angry Mississippi crept higher on its banks. By this week, The River had smashed eight levees, flooded about 25,000 acres. Unless the sun came out promptly, and to stay, the people of the U.S. middle border would remember June 1947 for a long, long time...
...quoted the Montreal Times as writing that U.S.-Canadian military ties were merely part of Canada's "final subservience to the U.S.A." It was true-the Montreal Times had indeed published suggestions as to how the city could defend itself against a possible attack from south of the border...
Craft in a Cave. Shipped north, Greening bolted from the train during an air attack. Winter caught him on the Yugoslav border and he holed up in a cave with two New Zealanders. To pass the long days they whittled statuettes and model airplanes, invited kids from the nearby villages to come look. One night a German patrol looked in too and recaptured them...