Word: critter
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...adopted a resolution praising the hairdo of a female legislator, but the house turned aside a proposal to decree ricotta the State Cheese. In Florida, the legislature recently indulged in boisterous repartee over a measure that would have made it a crime to molest the "skunk ape," a mythical critter occasionally sighted around the state that is said to stand 7 ft. tall, weigh 700 lbs. and smell like swamp...
Three years of control efforts, including massive poisoning, made no headway against the frogs. The only chance left, says James St. Amant, supervisor of the state department of fish and game, is to find "a critter that'll feed on them." That may be difficult since the frog's skin apparently contains a toxic venom and tastes awful. Even an alligator passed up a dish of clawed frogs-legs...
However, we must congratulate Mr. Savit, who incidentally was seen cavorting with a recently deceased and rapidly decomposing barnyard critter (the mainstay of our milk industry), for his precise spelling and immaginative use of punctuation; and metaphor...
...example, 78,000 residents took part in a three-phase litter pickup project that collected 500 tons of trash. The basic theme is pounded home by posters demanding ZERO LITTER, bumper stickers reading LITTER is NO ACCIDENT and even T shirts urging Washingtonians to STOP THE LITTER CRITTER...
...pelting, praying, beseeching, and cursing to induce that calf to leave the track. It only meandered slowly along, just a "lectle grain ahead." They all returned finally to the train. Bill furiously swearing, "By the holy horns of Beelzebub, if I bust my biler, I'll run that blasted critter down." The tender was emptied into the boiler, and the fireman sat on the safety-valve, and we ploughed along like an enraged elephant whose legs have been cut off by a circular saw. Still that calf kept a "lectle mite ahead," now and then playfully tapping the boiler front...