Word: mice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...makes it clear that ships carrying troops will not be allowed to cross . . . Formosa is a place where a small amount of aid, and at very small cost, can prevent the further spread of Communism ..." New Hampshire's Styles Bridges cried out: "Are we men in Europe and mice in Asia?" Not all Republicans felt so strongly. Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg, the party's chief spokesman on foreign policy, still shied from discussing Formosa "until all the facts are available." But he repeated an old theme: if there's to be genuine bipartisanship, the Republicans should...
...reason (possibly sunspots), the Arctic vegetation is not so nutritious as usual this year; the lichens and mosses on which the lemmings feed apparently lack vitamins. Naturalists call such a time a "crash year." On noiseless, downy wings the great owls drift across the U.S. boundary looking for U.S. mice. Sometimes they get as far as southern Illinois or even the Carolinas...
...three kind mice...
...lucky little mice are brain children of Geoffrey Hall, a bustling Manchester textile manufacturer who decided a year ago that what the world needed was a bowdlerized version of Mother Goose. Last week 10,000 copies of New Nursery Rhymes for Old were selling in England like Christmas pies, at sixpence (7?) a copy...
...year ago when he read a letter in the London News Chronicle by a father who reported that Mother Goose was playing hob with the children. His own five-year-old daughter, he reported indignantly, had come home in tears after hearing about Mother Goose's three blind mice who had run afoul of the farmer's wife, had their tails cut off by a carving knife. Geoffrey Hall decided forthwith to turn out some nicer rhymes...