Word: mule
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...remarked in its summary that it saw nothing to indicate that the animal was a suicide, and it suggested respectfully that the President should not object to signing the bill to pay Farmer Madison his due, even though the creature was just a horse and not a good Missouri mule. Harry Truman, a reasonable man in such matters, signed his name to the bill and awarded Farmer Madison $75 after six years of waiting. Then, to set his Budget Bureau right, the President appended a footnote...
...Missouri mule would not have been fool enough to get himself choked to death...
...blade. On weekends he used to ride at breakneck speed into the town of San Pedro de Macoris on a noisy, dust-spurting motorcycle, seriously disturbing a Marine captain attached to Santo Domingo's Guardia Nacional, who rode into town at the same time on a mule named Josephine. The mule-rider, Gregon Williams, is now chief of staff of the 1st Marine Division and he and Craig are close friends...
Family Circle. In Greenville, S.C., Mrs. Myrtle Penland willed all her property to her husband, on condition that: 1) their mule be provided for until it is of no further use, then shot "in the most humane fashion"; 2) their dog be furnished with a heated room in winter...
...Even in the atomic age, war has a way of turning back to its past. Last week's action of the Juneau was reminiscent of the time C. S. Forester's hero, Captain Horatio Hornblower, commanding H.M.S. Sutherland, shelled a mule train on a coastal road between Malgret and Aren de Mar during Wellington's Peninsular campaign...