Word: cats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week's atomic conversation: ¶ Alamogordo, N. Mex. was abuzz with the news that red Hereford cows had turned white following the first atomic explosion nearby. At Carrizozo, a black cat had turned half white. At Bingham. a rancher blamed the atom for grey streaks in his beard...
...have had 350 years of promises from the Dutch: We want no more of them. If you want to start Armageddon again, send the Dutch back to Indonesia." Asked if he would prefer British colonial administration to Dutch rule, he retorted: "Would you rather be bitten by a cat than...
Harold L. ("Terrible-Tempered") Ickes, asked for the umpteenth time if he expected to quit his Interior Secretaryship soon, tried a kittenish answer for a change: "That cat has more than nine lives. . . . Besides, I don't like cats...
...break over Hawaii, the destroyer Patterson was only four years old and one of the best. A survivor of Dec. 7's disaster, she became one of the thin line of U.S. warships left to stop the Jap fleet in the Pacific. Lean as an alley cat, "Pat" stalked off to westward...
...retained the Japs, including the notorious General Nobuyuki Abe, ex-Governor of Korea, whom he thanked publicly for making the U.S. occupation "simple and easy." Hodge also kept the Japanese police, holding that Koreans were "too excited" to perform police duty and that they were "the same breed of cat as the Japanese." Koreans roared and rioted (Japanese soldiers machine-gunned one throng, killed two, wounded...