Word: cats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bother the black cat that slinks through the shadows. But keep an eye on the black fascists who lurk in the world, their ranks barely dented by the good work at Nuremberg...
This year, the comet was due again, and astronomers calculated that this time the earth would pass only 131,000 miles from the place it had been eight days before. As astronomers measure distances, this is a cat's-whisker miss. The earth's gravitational pull would capture thousands, perhaps millions, of meteors: small bits of straggling comet stuff. When they plunged into the atmosphere at thousands of miles per hour and turned into incandescent gas, the show would be the best since...
...came to Brooklyn the following afternoon. Playing like champions for once, the inspired Bums manhandled the Boston Braves. For a few happy hours, they were ahead. But that night the Cards' Harry ("The Cat") Brecheen beat the Cubs for the second time in a week. It was all tied up again, with a single game apiece to play...
Last week, seven years after her death, Londoners saw the first show of her work. (Her famed brother, swashbuckling portrait-painter Augustus John, had helped promote it.) The sad portraits, flower pieces and cat studies seemed as limited and dim as reflections in a cup of tea, but visitors found them strangely moving...
Contracts on a 21-meal basis, similar to the prevailing plan in the Houses and undergraduate dining halls, will be available to the diners. Wives of married students may also cat in the dining hall but must purchase their meals from coupon books. Registration for both is now being conducted at the cafeteria...