Word: goates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fighting man, General Brereton can appreciate and understand the fighting men of the Indian Army. There are wiry, highland Gurkhas, who once each year must cut a wild goat in half with one swoop of a broad kukri; black-bearded Sikhs, whose proud name stands not for race or religion, but for a blood brotherhood of warriors; turbaned Pathans (pronounced pet-ahns). Indians like to quote the current figures on their Army: 1,000,000 men, "well equipped...
Four men jumped out of a car beside a house in Darien, Conn., banged on the door. A dignified, goat-tufted little man peered out. William Dudley Pelley was under arrest...
...Named for the Greek shepherd god Pan, whose hoofs, horns, tail and goat beard panicked his mother Penelope when he was born...
...from Indies waters. Perhaps to Australia, perhaps to Ceylon (see p. 19], he had withdrawn what the overwhelming Japanese Fleet had left of his battered squadrons. Dutchmen in the Indies and the U.S., Allied naval authorities in Washington and London, agreed that Admiral Helfrich had been no sacrificial goat when his command was shifted. To all effects, he had no fleet left to command...
...Soviet Russia as a skillful toymaker and there married a U.S. industrialist; got eyefuls and skinfuls of U.S. boomtime living, Manhattan Prohibition and Naziism; watched one son grow dully dependable and the other flirt with Naziism; and in general covered the uneven 20th-century scene with all the mountain-goat agility and twice the aptitude for human pleasure and pain of Upton Sinclair's Lanny Budd (TIME...