Word: ox
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Joshua as a war criminal. His version of what happened at the siege of Jericho differed from standard Biblical texts. Ibn Saud had Joshua commanding: "Burn ye all that is in the city and slay with the edge of the sword both man and woman, young and old, and ox and sheep, and burn the city with fire and all that is therein...
...gentleman got up in the morning and tried to put on a small boy's pantaloons. He wakened the house with a roar: "What's the matter? Why, can't you see what's the matter? I'm swelled as big as an ox. I cannot get my big toe into my pantaloons...
Along a dirt road through the bare Bulgarian hills, their columns wound for endless miles. The troops traveled in horse or ox-drawn carts or on foot, shuffling through the powder-fine white dust which rose in a cloud beneath the hot September sun and settled like snow when they had passed...
There was much argument as to the monster's antecedents. Most logical explanation was one adapted from the Idaho Sunday Statesman: Paul Bunyan, who used to fish the Snake River regularly, tied the shore-end of his sturgeon line to Babe, his vast blue ox, one hot day when sport was slow. Babe, nipped by a horsefly at the moment a sturgeon took the bait, twitched so violently that the huge fish was sent sailing all the way to Payette Lake. A jerk like that could well have given the creature a curvature of the spine (Slimy Slim...
...Smuts as the cool brain of the Union of South Africa. Jan Smuts recovered his admiration for the British: "They gave us back-in everything but name-our country. . . . They're a big people." But many a Boer, clinging to the memory of the pioneer Voortrekkers, whose ox wagons and rifles had beaten aside the yellow-brown Hottentots and the black Kaffirs, remained unreconstructed. They called Smuts Rhodes redivivus (Rhodes reborn), or Slim (sly, cunning) Jannie, and other more barbed names...