Word: fanged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...corner of Paris' rue Chaptal, a cobblestone nook at the edge of Montmartre, is a quaint little Gothic chapel. Inside, carved cherubs and two seven-foot angels smile down from the black-raftered vault at a nightly round of vile murders, manglings, and assorted acts of torturing, fang-baring, acid-throwing...
...runner-up was the pre-primary favorite, earnest Dr. Homer Price Rainey, ousted president of the University of Texas.* After a discreet radio campaign that degenerated into fang and claw stumping, 50-year-old Baptist Dr. Rainey had clapped a Stetson on his bald head and begun calling names in the best southwestern tradition. He had done very well for a professor suspected by Texans of having read John Dos Passos' U.S.A. But, even with the silent support of the C.I.O.-P.A.C. and Texas' more than 50,000 voting Negroes, Homer Rainey would have...
...women M.P.s: former League Delegate Florence Horsbrugh ("I'm one of those people who think men and women must work together") and tiny Ellen Wilkinson, called the "shelter Queen" because of her labors in behalf of bombed-out Londoners. China also sent a woman: Dr. Wu Yi-fang, President of Ginling College...
...guys in the foxholes gag about everything, but they do it for G.I. ears. . . . After all, you don't get fang marks in a rabbit warren...
Hoclcett on Paper. When Hockett got back to Washington he and Fang were assigned to produce a book which would do the job they had done on the pioneering voyage. Spoken Chinese is one of the Army's 23 basic language manuals.* It teaches 750 words and Hockett thinks they can be learned in a month by drilling with the book and listening to the records. The disks give an English word or phrase, then the Chinese equivalent, then are silent so the student can imitate the Chinese, then reiterate the Chinese. The set of 25 records covers most...