Word: goblin
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Perhaps it is poetic justice that the goblin the Republicans raised now seems about to devour them-hoofs, horns, N.A.M...
After 35 years' service ashore and afloat and 6,000 flying hours as a naval aviator. Rear Admiral John Smith Thach, 52, last week drew a unique assignment: goblin hunting. In Navy parlance, goblins are unidentified submarines. By Navy observation, goblins currently spotted on an average of once a week off the Atlantic coast are nosy members of a Russian submarine fleet that numbers almost 500 boats, and is already ten times the size of Germany's wolf pack at the outbreak of World War II. Very soon, new Soviet boats will have missile capacity; Central Intelligence Agency...
...town of Nizhni-Novgorod where Gorky spent his childhood. The film has no continuous narrative. Instead you remember many of the images--the docks, the fair, 'Gypsy's' dance, Gorky and his friends combing the Nizhni-Novgorod junk heaps for wheels, and Grandmother Kashirin carting around the family house goblin in her shoe...
...women. Seeming to care less for conventional ensembles than she did before her cliff-hanging rejection of Group Captain Peter Townsend, Margaret had turned up for the races at London's suburban Hurst Park in an outfit that, for once, really stunned fashionabobs. Her arresting getup: a heavy, goblin-style hat, a fur-collared, knee-length cloth coat with mannish lapels, a dress of another material but with black buttons matching the coat's, shoes and handbag in suede, the whole incongruously teamed with pigskin gloves, a pearl necklace. Polled for their views, the fashion experts, all insisting...
...goes about the world putting wrong things right." Thus, when Mr. Plod the Policeman wants to clap Noddy into jail on bread and water and rice pudding. Noddy's friends whisk him off on the Toyland Train ("Chuffity-chuffity-chuffity-chuff") to find the real culprits in Goblin-Land...