Word: catting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Right Down Main Street. The folks around Parnell remember young Ben as a rough one. Quick as a cat and strong.as a bull, he could lick any young buck in the county, and frequently did, and he would bet on anything...
...that there is no middle course between Crown and republic, between in & out of the Commonwealth ... If in some nebulous and muddled way you can be both in & out of it, the whole concept of Commonwealth goes and what remains is mere name without substance, the grin without the cat in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland...
That night impressionable Erica went home to her flat and fell into a troubled sleep. At midnight, she awoke to hear her pet cat screaming. Standing in her bathroom, she swore next morning, was a tall figure wearing the polterjacket. As Erica cried out in terror, the figure turned slowly to reveal the hideous face of an old crone. "I stared it away," reported Erica bravely. "It came up and then faded away like a television image...
...speech before a crowd of several hundred at the New Lecture Hall, Brinton rapped the United States for a sense of self-righteousness which, he claimed, is pushing us toward war. To make the peace, he states that both the U.S. and Russia must stop their "cat-and-mouse" strategies and work together through...
...Caught between the demands of bird lovers and cat lovers, Illinois' Governor Adlai Stevenson finally vetoed a bill which would have permitted the impounding of cats running around at large. Said he: "It is in the nature of cats to do a certain amount of unescorted roaming...