Word: kangaroos
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...continent, the bone-weary drivers struck out into the barrens of the "Never Never Land." Talcum-fine red dust blinded them, and tired eyes tricked them into braking their cars for no reason at all; strange, unearthy shapes seemed to dance across their headlight beams. This is kangaroo country, and the long-necked leapers chased cars down the road at speeds up to 40 m.p.h. One Japanese entry, a Toyopet Crown de Luxe, skidded off the road after a kangaroo bounced on its motor hood, dented a fender and smashed a headlight. Said Driver Kojiro Kondo to his navigator: "Jumping...
...Soviet Union. In order to prevent these creatures from making a new October, we asked them, 'Gentlemen, please step inside.' " Invitations went only to "good classic fascist figures," said Marosan-counts, colonels, landowners. The good classic figures could expect soon to be propped up before kangaroo courts to establish the legend of the fascist revolt...
...obliged to go out seeking food for their families disguised themselves as old hags. On one street in Pest lay the nude, violated body of a pregnant woman. The Soviet commander brought in a field gendarmerie called "R troops." The R men set up house guards, block inspectors and kangaroo courts empowered to execute within 24 hours any Hungarian found guilty of "murder, arson, looting," or concealing arms. The orders were signed by a Major General Grubennyik...
...Francisco's I. Magnin & Co. shoppers can buy, for $500, an 8-ft. cloth-covered, motorized kangaroo that pops a 3-ft. kangaroo out of its pouch. But they had better hurry, because the store sold out its supply once and had to scour Europe for more. In Beverly Hills a thoughtful fellow sent a birthday present to a department-store executive "who has everything": a brush specially designed to clean the lint from his navel. R. H. Macy, Manhattan's mass department store, offers French beaded purses for $99.50; Sears, Roebuck, the farmer's friend, catalogues...
...hands. He darted under the amazing (80-in.) reach of Jackson to slash right and left hands to the head. It was like punching a bowling ball. Jackson (193½ Ibs.) merely blinked, plowed forward. Patterson was so eager that he frequently resorted to amateurish tricks, even tried leaping-kangaroo right hand leads that would have invited destruction from a smarter opponent...