Word: cats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Epoque, a usually staid Paris daily, hazarded a political revelation. A cat, it charged, was carried on the budget of the Bibliotheque Nationale, France's vast and ponderous national library. The cat, maintained by the library to discourage rats from gnawing the bindings, was said by L'Epoque to have died recently after giving birth to kittens and had been circumspectly replaced by a male...
TIME'S Paris Correspondent Sherry Mangan telephoned the library, was connected: 1) with the chef of the library canteen, who admitted a change of cats but was not sure of the new cat's sex; 2) with the lady manager of the canteen, who refused to become embroiled in politics; 3) with a bull-voiced man who, apparently jealous of the library's dignity, denied that it maintained a cat of any sex. But L'Epoque stuck to its guns, insisted that the cat was a regular government fonctionnaire and that its upkeep allowance...
...Montreal, Paul LaFontaine, a Progressive Conservative organizer, let a plump cat out of the bag. He revealed (and John Bracken later partly confirmed) that his pro-conscriptionist party had made a secret deal with the anti-conscriptionist "independents" to support 30 of their candidates in Quebec. Behind this incongruous arrangement was the obvious hope that after the election the combined strength of the Progressive Conservatives and the "independents" would be great enough to unseat Prime Minister King, permit formation of a Progressive Conservative Government. A historical precedent buttressed this hope: a similar deal had worked in 1911, when Conservatives...
Woody swiftly learned that an order from a superior carried "the impact of a rifle shot" - and that everyone is superior to a plebe except "the Superintendent's dog, the Commandant's cat, the waiters in the Mess Hall, the Hell Cats (buglers), and all the Admirals in the whole - Navy." For the rest of the morning and all afternoon, indignity was piled on indignity. Between affronts, Woody lugged bed clothes, changed white shirt for grey, shut tled to & from the cadet store with supplies, learned about demeanor and demerits, drew a rifle, drilled, ran, crept, crawled, fell...
Language instruction at the CAT School has emphasized the requirements needed by trainees to meet concrete situations in which they are likely to find themselves. They must ascertain from friendly natives necessary and strategic information. And the concrete situations are actually dramatized by the students...