Word: goates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...insisted on divorcing news from opinion, a major operation for a paper steeped in the personal-journalism tradition of the Oregonian's founder, Henry L. Pittock, a goat-bearded tyrant of pioneer days. Under Hoyt the Republican Oregonian gave labor, Democrats, Japanese-Americans an even break - something the Denver Post never...
...Thousand Maltas. Everywhere mixed-nationality teams made confused but increasing progress. Grain that may save 400,000 lives was now moving along the Dalmatian coast. Because railroads and bridges were smashed, leaving only goat paths, UNRRA had sent U.S. railroad locomotives. Hungry men worked slowly and happily, unloading UNRRA ships in Greek and Italian ports...
Spike also invented an "anvilphone," a "crashophone" (to break glass), a "poon-tangophone" (a cigar box and a lathe) and a "latrinophone" (a toilet seat strung with catgut, which went over big on a European U.S.O. tour). To record his Hotchi Cornia, Spike rented a goat that "naa-a-a-ed" when he twisted its tail. In Little Bo Peep Has Lost Her Jeep, the Slickers ripped apart an old auto. When these musical effects proved inadequate to Spike's demands, the band members crunched English walnuts in their teeth, ripped mustard plasters off each other's chests...
Virginia Gildersleeve was born and raised on Manhattan's 48th Street-just across from where Rockefeller Center now stands-but she summered in the country. She was a solemn, round-eyed child who seldom went to parties. Her playmates were a pet goat, a pony and a horse named Billy, and she stood no nonsense from them. Once the pony took the bit in his teeth and tried to run away with her. Virginia guided him through the half-open gate of a handy race track, and let him run around the track until his wind gave...
...Wonderful. Morgenthau's major premise: Germans must live primarily on the land, give up all their heavy industries ("without them, no matter how savage her aggressive aims may be, she cannot make war"). The Potsdam plan for Germany followed the general lines of this familiar "goat pasture" doctrine, but did not go as far as Morgenthau would like...