Word: cougars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mississippi doctor had told committee investigators that the Senator has cancer of the mouth. Wasted, and minus his lower plate. Bilbo sat in the wit ness chair from 10 a.m. until 7 p.m. While his voice clogged and his shoulders sagged, he spat at his inquisitors like a treed cougar...
...Pasadena, Wright Cougar ran his car into a truck, was asked by a cop how good his brakes were, said "I'll show you," headed for the truck, crashed into it again...
...screen Hawks manages to get down a good deal of the glamorous tawdriness of big-city low life, discreetly laced with hints of dope addiction, voyeurism and fornication. A round dozen minor players help him out with great efficiency- not to mention Miss Bacall, who is like an adolescent cougar...
That was a good story on cougar (TIME, Feb. 21), but I can't help wondering where your writers would turn to substantiate the statement that the big cats "sometimes [grow] to nine or ten feet from gorging on deer," or on anything else. . . . There may be something in some local deer that makes cougar bigger in some areas of the country. I don't know. I do know that the biggest "lion" yet killed by a family of brothers who hunt them professionally in three southwestern states and northern Mexico was several inches under eight feet long...
...Cougar-on-the-paw average about eight feet from nose to tail tip. Cougar skins without cougar in them run longer. From now on TIME'S catamount editor has been directed to bring them back alive...