Word: clawful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...accident was it that Italy's third claw was put in charge of her ablest colonial general. General Rodolfo Grazi-ani, hard bitten veteran of many a Libyan skirmish, was plowing north last week from Italian Somaliland at the head of mixed Italian and colonial troops. The terrain he will have to cross is a shade easier than that facing the other two armies, but the distance to his base, Mogadishu on the Indian Ocean, is almost twice as long, the difficulties of water, food and supplies almost twice as great. It is against him that Ethiopians have their...
...lays bare the joint. Then he carefully breaks the part of the pelvic bone which forms the upper edge of the hip socket. The loosened piece of bone he bends down and wedges securely with bone grafts. After healing, the downturned chunk of pelvis acts like a claw to hold the hip bone within its socket. The new grip is just tight enough to let the leg swing...
With its offensive weapons considerably sharpened since last Saturday's sluggish exhibition. Tuss McLaughry's big Brown bear journeys up to Cambridge today anxious to claw the Crimson outfit into submission...
...practicing piscatorialist, there are several possible explanations. The young man may have been swallowed by a dragon, drowned by accident or bored to death by Mr. Stamm's tropical fish. Detective Vance proves that none of these hypotheses is correct. Stamm has dressed himself in a diving suit with claw fingers, choked his guest to death, for insufficient reasons...
...months. Curbing his reckless Johnsonese, he did not say that all his opponents were chiselers, did not claim that NRA was responsible for all recovery to date. And in opening his remarks he even put in a word of understanding for the newspaper publishers who battled him tooth and claw to get freedom of the Press written into their code. Said the NRAdministrator...