Word: paw
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There are twelve Taylors. Paw is "a stoop-shouldered man in faded and patched overalls and jumper," whose "whole attitude [was] one of vague indecision and innate bewilderment." Maw "was heavy and cumbersome with un attended childbearing and her feet were flat and encased in low tennis shoes . . . with the laces carelessly flapping around her bare dirt-stained ankles. . . ." The children were Hub, Virginia ("Virginia ain't what you'd call a godly girl," said Paw), Gwendolin and Eugenia (who had "ferret-like eyes"), Harold and McKinley, Jutland, Buddy (who had a withered leg and a knack...
...damn it," said Mr. Young, "you can't just go off and leave a man's crop like that. . . . And so far you've got the best stand you've had in twenty years." "I don't aim to just leave no man," said Paw, "seems like you ought to be able to git enough hands to finish just this one crop...
...loudest cheers was James Austin's five-year-old smooth-haired fox terrier, Champion Nornay Saddler, brought out of retirement to try for the Morris & Essex best-in-show. Winner of 55 best-in-shows, a world's record, Saddler had never put his best paw forward at Mrs. Dodge's party. Last week, making a champion's comeback, he outshone the five other group winners in the final judging, added the coveted Morris & Essex to his collection of best-in-shows. "I must rate him all-time tops," purred Judge Enno Meyer...
...feet. The 19,000 Detroiters in the arena could scarcely believe their eyes. Sure, Abe had been toppled in the first round, hit the canvas again in the third. But here was one pushover who refused to stay down. Back he came -jabbing, jabbing, jabbing with his giant left paw. His persistence raised a mouse under Joe Louis' left...
...lion's paw drew its thin line across Libya, across Ethiopia, across Albania. But when Benito Mussolini tried to make his mark in Greece, the paw began picking up thorns-until by last week Il Duce was badly in need of his Androcles, Adolf Hitler. The biggest thorn, the one which hurt even more than Libya, was being pressed home by the British in Ethiopia (see map). The seizure of Ethiopia in 1936 was what made Italy an "Empire...