Word: ox
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been under way since last autumn. Dark-haired, muscular Sculptor Carroll Barnes has been chopping away at a 22-ton hunk of Sequoia gigantea (world's largest tree), gradually carving it into a gigantic statue of the lumberman's legendary hero, Paul Bunyan, and his blue ox, Babe. Last week, depressed by poor returns from his first one-man show in San Francisco, Barnes had a mind to hang a "war casualty" sign on Paul and get a job driving a tractor...
Capitano Volanis was a short man, but fierce, handlebar mustaches and shoulders like an ox's made him look ominous. Over 70, he could still clamber goatlike among the mountains of Crete, could still spring on a wild goat and throw it with his bare hands. That was why they called him "The Goat," this notorious leader of the out lawed Venizelists, who wanted no kings in Greece & Crete...
...undergraduate president, Don Forte as secretary, and track captain-elect Don MacKinnon as treasurer. These two men were named to the Executive Board at the annual blections, to serve with George Owen '23, former Boston Bruins captain and nine-letter man at Harvard, Edgar N. Wrightington '97, ox-football captain, and Dean George F. Plimpton...
Furthermore, any diversion of South African troops to Madagascar might be followed by increased pro-Nazi sabotage inside the Union itself. In recent months "dynamitards" of the fascist Ossewa Brandwag-"Ox Wagon Fireguard" (TIME, Feb. 10, 1941)-have blasted high-power transmission lines feeding the great Rand gold mines and the South African railways, have cut telephone & telegraph lines wholesale and even found support among the Union police. Now the Union of South Africa has a death penalty for such acts, but if Madagascar is taken by the Axis, the Union's violent pro-Nazi minority may cause...
Brushes made from soft Russian sable bristles are plentiful. But stiff German-dressed South American ox bristles and "camel hair" (obtained not from camels but from Russian squirrels) are practically unobtainable...