Word: goates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Optimism. General Sir Archibald Wavell reported on his recent inspection trip to Assam and Bengal, the northeastern provinces where a Japanese invasion is threatened when the monsoon rains end in mid-October. Optimist Wavell compared Japan to a boa constrictor which has swallowed a goat and has to have time to digest it. He spoke of retaking Burma. Wavell's optimism may have been regarded by some as a military boost to the United Nations. But there was no cause for optimism in a political situation that, unless remedied, will endanger the United Nations' dealing with Asia...
...goat-bearded, argumentative agnostic was London University's Philosopher Cyril Edwin Mitchison Joad, who once asserted (on the dust-jacket of his Testament of Joad): "I can explain anything to anybody." For the last 18 months he has carried out this threat on a popular BBC radio program, "The Brains Trust." But of late radio fans have noticed a decreasing cockiness in Brain Truster Joad's answers. One shrewd lady listener wrote him that he seemed to be walking a tightrope between the mountain of faith and the abyss of doubt, and that she prayed every night...
...Ferdinand-the-bull in the Peruvian war, is now showing signs of timidity in the war against the Axis. With other ins and outs in Ecuadorian politics, they are awaiting a possible blowup this week. Congressional elections will test the strength of Arroyo and goat-bearded old Julio Moreno, President of the Senate, who hopes to succeed him. The elections may also bring to a head the almost continuous political crisis following the peace pact with Peru...
...year.. When Native Lands Commissioner Henry Evans Maude hopped ashore on Pitcairn two years ago, he knew that his would probably be the last official visit for the war's duration. He found that government records had all been chucked into an old sugar sack. The spawning goat population was slowly munching up the island's greenery. Public boats (needed to bring goods ashore, since Pitcairn has no harbor) looked as neglected as unused outhouses. To teach Pitcairn Islanders how to shift for themselves, Commissioner Maude decided on a time-honored British expedient: a constitution of Pitcairn...
Food. In Dover, Ohio, a goat chewed the $5 Federal stamp off Levi Weaver's windshield. In Nahunta, Ga., a schoolteacher's horse nibbled a dangling light bulb, was electrocuted...