Word: haring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...staff general had seen it with his own eyes: an MP outfit in Brittany had trained its pet hare and a mongrel dog to chase each other. Dutifully making his report, the staff general reported the phenomenon to his commander. Blimped his boss...
...What's that-you saw a hare chasing a dog? General, you're a damned liar-that violates all standing operating procedure...
Last week a new series of dispatches from Rome revealed another veteran U.S. political reporter on the job. They came from Anne O'Hare McCormick of the New York Times, who probably knows from of old more about Italy and the rest of Europe than any of her competitors. Revisiting many an old friend, she has found Italians hungry ("For the first time in Rome an American feels a little uncomfortable before the hungry eyes of the inhabitants"), eager to regain self-respect and self-government, but resigned to paying "in humiliation, impoverishment and a long status of probation...
...Democratic Party of 1944 was, in the phrase of the New York Times's Anne O'Hare McCormick, "a strange parade of incompatibles." This rickety combination of discordant elements was held together by one man and one man only: Franklin Roosevelt...
...Readers Basilico, Jaffe, et al. never hear, then, of the great Finn MacCool (TIME, Nov. 1) ? He was well known to have lepped the width of Ireland (115 Sassenach miles) in three jumps, and could outrun a hare or a stag itself, and he merely moving his legs gently, the way he'd be restoring his circulation...