Word: leash
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Something ought to be done about: 1) The absolute lack of social-life amongst the 171 of us. Some kind of a dance or clam-bake or lynching party should be organized. With men like Jock Brunner and Bill James straining at the leash only the inspiration is needed. Don Brown suggests that a formal dance would go well the weekend after Labor Day. I guess, maybe, he's right. 2) The singing and marching on the way to chow. The morale which made us almost conspicuous during our Midshipmen term has just about disintegrated. Perhaps the new songs which...
...ruthless, passionate young woman, out strictly for the highest bidder, she keeps them on her leash even after she marries doting, pathetic Peasant Hugo Haas. First she destroys Judge Sanders' attempt to settle down with a wife (sugary, upper-class Anna Lee). Then she parades before the count in his dead wife's wedding dress. At length, on a shooting party (the film is made from Chekhov's story The Shooting Party), she is mysteriously knifed to death. Her husband takes the rap. The Bolshevik revolution overtakes her guilty lover before justice does...
...Brassières: "Scratch like a vegetable grater. . . . Could hold a wild bull in leash...
...Chips, U.S. Army dog-gallantry in action. After landing at Blue Beach Chips and his handler advanced 300 yd. inland under a flurry of flares and tracer bullets. . . . Suddenly a hidden machine gun began firing from the hut on troops on the beach. Unhesitatingly Chips wrenched the leash from his handler's hand, dashed into the hut, teeth bared, and vigorously attacked...
...Japs grabbed a middle-aged storekeeper, according to Father Lebel, looped a rope around his neck and drew it down between his legs, forcing his head down to the level of his knees. "Then they made him trot along ahead of them, like some great clumsy dog on a leash. After they had gone about three miles, they got tired of the sport. One Japanese . . . took his sword and chopped off the man's head. Then all the Japanese casually sat down to lunch a few feet away...