Word: mascot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tito relaxed his talons, and the three American G.I.s and their mongrel mascot, which had shared their Yugoslav captivity with them, marched back to freedom. The Yugoslavs made the snatch last week while feeling out how far they could bluff the thin line of U.S. troops into bending back the new Yugoslav-Trieste frontier which they were guarding...
Shocking Pink. The aging Welsh wonder-boy of British journalism was as giftedly gabby as ever but no longer so leftish. At 23, as political mascot to Old Liberal Lloyd George, Owen had been Parliament's youngest member. At 32, he had left the Express to become the Socialist editor of Imperialist Beaverbrook's Evening Standard (the Beaver did not forbid dissenting opinions, but only dull ones, from such bright-pink young men as Owen and his successor Michael Foot). On the Standard, Owen had tramped hard on Tory toes, squawked against Chamberlain's appeasers...
Speemen, horrified at the discovery of their three foot, black mascot in public, clad only in a bow tie, were pushing the probe. One prominent clubman was heard to remark, "A Spee bear would never be seen without his old school tie and oxford cloth button down." We are grateful, however, for the stuffing and repair job done on the beast during his misadventure. In the great Spee tradition the bear will return to the clubhouse in much better condition than when he left...
...disappearance of the mascot is the second kidnapping case reported within a week, as band members are still searching for their stolen mystery pet, Six-da" reportedly abducted by a local brewery for dire purposes...
...first charge, which carries with it the greater peacetime penalty, was filed by Mrs. Lena Years, of 10 Hope Drive, She identified the trio as the men who had attacked her the previous day, insisting that "Fritzie," her Mexican hairless, was the gridiron mascot...