Word: gnat
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...TIME'S account was accurate to a gnat's heel. You didn't even slip up on any of the neat little phrases that the publicity man naïvely inserted in the copy...
...this time were so affiliated, they signed in such fashion as to put after their names labor union titles like "Secretary" or "President" but nowhere mentioned what body or affiliate of C.I. O. they represented. On the face of things, Premier Hepburn had used a sledgehammer to squash a gnat, effectively but with ludicrous melodramatics...
...platform of an official body designed to organize every Englishman living abroad as a propagandist for democracy and so, in Germany, as a propagandist against Naziism. Would Hitler tolerate it for a moment? Why he cannot so much as tolerate Rotary. . . . Yet while straining at a gnat himself, he expects us to swallow camels...
...Like a gnat buzzing over a man's bald head, the ANT-25 droned along at a bare 100 m. p. h. with its 2,000-gal. load of gas, passed 20 mi. away from the North Pole base. When their radio cut out under polar magnetic influence, Navigator Beliakoff used the sun compass invented by Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd. It got so cold the drinking water froze, and the men would have too, but for their silk undergarments, leather breeches and turtlenecked sweaters. Only Baidukoff took a nap. Chkaloff stayed at the controls steadily, nursed his ship down...
...offering insurance odds of 10-to-1 favoring the Baldwin Government to win Britain's general election Nov. 14. Confident Conservatives were saying at campaign headquarters: "The Government are as much embarrassed by the attacks of Lloyd George and Snowden as a lion facing two gnats." Presently a secretary told Tycoon Cadman that Gnat Lloyd George had declared in what he meant for a stinging attack on His Majesty's Government: "Sanctions will not stop the advance of Mussolini's army, not by one hour! They will not save one Ethiopian life. Sanctions will not prevent guns...