Word: clawingly
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...rose Dr. Kung. In perfect English he told the assembled foreigners that in the Chinese zodiac cycle, the old year was represented by the timid rabbit, but the new, auspiciously, by the angry dragon-China's patron beast, sharp of claw and smoky of breath. From a huge clock over a trapdoor at one end of the room sprang a man dressed as a rabbit. A harangue was made on his record during the year. At the stroke of midnight emerged a laughably fierce dragon made of tinsel and crepe, glistening with Chinese lanterns, borne aloft and twisted...
...Hawaii Artist O'Keeffe happily painted fishhooks, tropical flowers, lava bridges, waterfalls-but nary a pineapple. To Dole on her return she presented a vivid red canvas of crab's claw ginger, a lush green papaya tree (Dole's rival is papaya juice...
...ninety minutes these human cats scratch and claw each other, and while it is quite amusing throughout, the length of the film and the constant repetition of the one and only idea make the picture a trifle boresome. Go to see it, by all means, though, for if you don't you'll be missing one of the treats of a lifetime...
...Pacreau, 34, was visiting the polar bears in the Vincennes Zoo. Because there are no bars in the Zoo, only way to see the polar bears is to peer into their pool from a steep rock bank high enough so no bear can stand on its hind legs and claw the customers. While Joseph Pacreau peered, one bear heaved itself awkwardly on to the back of another bear, got hold of Joseph Pacreau's arm, hung on till a keeper arrived and rapped it smartly on the nose...
...Hague to have another try. Billiton set up headquarters on Terschelling, hired 50 wooden-shod dredgermen from the village of Sliedrecht, sent out the Karimata, world's largest dredger, to claw a trench on the bottom...