Word: catting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...handsome man named Roman Czerniawsky, had been an intelligence officer. With Mathilde's brilliant help, he was soon feeding the British war office valuable information on the German order of battle. Mathilde was the network's cryptographer. Her fervently admiring comrades called her La Chatte (The Cat), because she moved so noiselessly...
Harrington said he won because Miller took too much time off to cat and once dropped off to sleep...
...thoughts of a pregnant woman sitting on the ground somewhere in Europe? The first part of Erni's solution was to get the woman on canvas as realistically as he could and give her ah expression of dull waiting. Then, just over her head, he drew a tangled cat's cradle of white lines. He called the whole thing Young Woman...
What sort of snarling cat had got hold of the News's tongue? Well, Miss Hayworth had refused to be interviewed, and any celebrity who did that to the News could expect to be tabbed as looking pale and haggard. Reporters don't like to be snubbed, and have their own unpleasant ways of showing it. On the other hand, in Elsa Maxwell's column last week, "Rita, of course, looked beautiful." Elsa had not been snubbed; she had lunched with Rita...
...state primary school in Communist Budapest, a Hungarian teacher asked ten-year-old Istvan to compose a sentence containing a dependent clause. "Our cat had ten kittens," said Istvan, "of which all were Communists." "Excellent," said the teacher. "Exactly right. Be sure you do as well next week when the government supervisors come." The following week she asked the prize student the same question. "Our cat," said Istvan, "had ten kittens, of which all were Social Democrats." "Why, Istvan," cried the teacher, "that's absurd. That's not what you said last week. Last week your kittens were...