Word: hoof
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lips and rubbed his hands. "You will be pleased at what I did. But, of course, my being named Gestapo Commissar General of all German Occupied Territory in May was only a promotion for what I had done before." The Devil pawed at the sulphurous earth with a cloven hoof. At last he said: "Go ahead then; start from the beginning." "Well, I killed my first man," Heydrich said, "when I was 15-fighting the Reds and the Republicans in the streets of my home town of Halle in Saxony. That was in 1919. I'm 38 now. Then...
...Brooks Brothers Shirt does at full length a U.S. type common on the hoof but so new to U.S. letters that the author, unfortunately, can't quite get over her smartness in bringing him back alive. He is the intelligent, morose, lonely U.S. businessman. He and Miss Sargent pick each other up on a transcontinental train and their Scotched-up frictions throw a yellow light on various aspects of U.S. money, snobbism...
...something you won't want to miss, and you probably won't be able to if you come within eyesight of it. All six feet four, expect for two midgets six three, the Badgers, for so they call themselves will present the biggest exhibition of flesh on the hoof since the Circus came to town...
...race horse: Willis Sharpe Kilmer's Exterminator (Old Bones), who went on to win 50 out of 100 races, earn more than a quarter of a million dollars. Among the 15 three-year-olds who went to the post at Churchill Downs last week, none could hold a hoof to Exterminator. But this year's Derby drew nearly three times as many spectators (80,000), was worth four times as much ($64,000) to the winner...
...have taken the form of a direct note promising retribution and economic ruin for any nation which has not "behaved discreetly" at Rio, has more influence in the Pink House than in any other Latin American capitol. As long as United States beef interests insist that Argentine steers have hoof-and-mouth disease, for one small example, the Republic will be dependent on Europe for its existence...