Word: jackal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...urged the formation of the Westbrook Pegler Annual Award of Journalistic Infamy, with the nomination committee to include the poundmaster and chief plumbing inspector of the District of Columbia, and the prize plaque to be "a rectangular shield transversed by a double cross, surmounted by a turkey buzzard . . . with jackal couchant in the left upper quarter and the symbolic figures of Truth and Decency outraged supine in the lower right quarter...
...Some Churchillian epithets: "Whipped jackal . . . tattered lackey . . . merest utensil . . . Italian flop." * No kin to the fame Strong Boy of Boston
...good start. He buttered up labor by arranging to consult with it-along with industry. He pleased factory owners by denouncing any scheme to protect competitive positions, i.e., prevent one plant from resuming civilian manufacture because a competitor was still doing war work. Small factories, which got a jackal's share of war contracts, are apparently to have the lion's share of the job of supplying U.S. civilians until...
Talk about bad reporting. The statement that I advocate "extermination of the German people" (TIME, Jan. 3), cannot be documented by any word I have ever spoken or written. Only a combination of a jackal and a jackass could advocate extermination of 70,000,000 Germans, and I am neither...
...Heinkel & Junkers dive-bombers swooped down on the destroyers in midafternoon, sank the 1,935-ton Lively on their first attack, were driven off by British Beaufighters on their second, sank the 1,695-ton Kipling on a third go and so severely damaged her sister ship the Jackal that the British sank her next day. The signs of increasing Axis activity might simply be provoked by an Allied success in the war of nerves. Sir Stafford Cripps, British Lord Privy Seal, recently told his Bristol constituents: "The Germans are getting uneasy at the militant spirit of the British...