Word: lambe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shall smell the desert air; I shall have tents, horses, weapons, and be free. . . ." They arrived with a museum load of African, South American and Indian bric-a-brac and five dogs-to which they soon added twelve horses, three goats, a camel, a snow-white donkey, a pet lamb and a baby panther (which the horrified peasants poisoned...
...sharp-muzzled sheep dog one clear, shriveling-cold January night at the Home Farm outside Abbots Leigh village near Bristol. The sirens screamed at 5 o'clock, and Shepherd Mitchell was immediately surrounded by a blaze of 20th-century horror. Incendiaries fired his straw-and-wattle lambing pens, sheltering 34 ewes and lambs. High explosives followed the incendiaries and scared the wits out of the sheep dog, who promptly went A.W.O.L. for 24 hours. Alone, Mitchell fought the fire till the flames crackled near a terrified ewe, who tried to shield her lamb. He seized the lamb and rushed...
...midnight he went to another part of the field "to speak words of comfort to 107 ewes due to lamb in a week." The bombs started to drop all around him. After the raiders passed, he returned to his whitewashed cottage. As he opened the back door, a bomb exploded in his front garden and blasted the roof, walls and windows, but he was unharmed. Fred Mitchell, O.B.E., saved a lot of mutton for Britain...
...little Turkish general in the black lamb's fur cap of the Kamâlists went to Lausanne to discuss permanent peace terms with the Allies. The British condescendingly had the conference postponed for ten days because of a general election at home, and Ismet used this time to visit Raymond Poincare and sow a little discord between the Allies...
...Goodfellow, who is managing director of Amalgamated Dairies, Ltd., of Auckland, stated that "about" 24 out of a fleet of 60 refrigerator ships which had plied from New Zealand to Britain via the Panama Canal had been sunk. Said Dairyman Goodfellow: "There are several million carcasses of mutton and lamb [in New Zealand warehouses] awaiting shipment. We also have an excess of 20,000 tons of butter-with a new season's make coming on." The immediate need: 20 refrigerator ships. If Dairyman Goodfellow's case was typical of all of Britain's food-suppliers, then sinkings...