Word: cats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME, Aug. 26). Beefy Leslie Hale, a Laborite, related that four times in the last two years the five men had missed the gibbet by last-minute postponements of execution; that itself was a terrible punishment. Winston Churchill growled that the five Africans had been "subjected to torture" by "cat-and-mousing them up to the scaffold." This, he stormed, was "an affront to every decent tradition . . . a matter affecting the life and honor and the decent administration of British Government...
...British seaman dropped dead under the stinging lash of a cat o' nine tails, Captain William Bligh of H.M.S. Bounty said, "No laws are more just than those governing the conduct...
...Cat-&-Mouse. In Paris a cold wind blew all week. Bristly Benoit Frachon, working away in his cold office, amid the smoke and grit from the Gare de 1'Est, would have dearly loved to go fishing in the sun at one of his favorite Riviera vacation spots. But Frachon could not get away. As Communist boss of the Confederation General du Travail, he was directing one of the most massive and delicate operations in French labor history. His problem was to maneuver the C.G.T.'s six million members so as to take maximum political advantage of the bitter discontent...
...Frachon played cat-&-mouse. France twitched and jumped with "token" strikes, ranging from the theater ushers, who would not take patrons to their seats, to the Paris police, who struck for four hours.* At the same time the subway workers struck. A stockbroker, Louis Molinier, watched the resulting traffic snarl in the Place de la Concorde. He pulled his coat collar up against the wind, shivered, and said: "It gives you the impression that a thousand men with rifles could take over the whole city...
...script for a recent production of "The Cat and the Canary" called for a circular, rotating bookcase suitable for stowing away various dead bodies and homicidal instruments, and this necessitated a purchase. But the carpentry skill of the property men enables the company to get around most of the many problems of this sort less expensively. To illustrate this point Mr. Trask indicated in the crowded prop room an ugly, box-like structure constructed of mattresses and a few sticks of wood which he said could be made to resemble nearly any couch or sofa called for merely...