Word: paw
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...receives the rank of private or seaman, and so on upwards. Some Park Avenue generals or admirals ($100) may go so far as to have gold braid sewed on their strolling jackets, but officially each Home Guard K-9 of whatever rank receives the same insignia: a paw print on a celluloid collar-tag. Among the hundreds of generals is Mrs. Peter H. B. Frelinghuysen's miniature poodle, Ch. Fitter Patter of Pipers-croft, who outshone all her rivals at last week's Westminster...
...those rabbits. Mouth open, one paw up, great big eyes, little impressionists running all over the theatre. Take one home in your pocket. What if that sissy, Bambi, is a bore? What if mother-love, the Cruelty of Man, the Landlord of the Forest, and other miscellaneous nineteenth century melodrama are overdone until they become a lush mush? These are Disney's incorrigible faults, but they are well worth suffering or sleeping through for a glimpse of a lop-cared bunny yelling like hell as he slides...
Port Moresby, the Allied base on the south coast of New Guinea, is more than the United Nations' last pitiful foothold in the rich empire of the Indies: it is a thorn in the paw of the Jap, By repeated bombings he has tried to shake it out. Last week he committed himself to a new operation: he would pluck it out with the bayonet...
Nights, however, are pleasantly cool- one-blanket weather. Food is passable: almost all of it comes from cans. There is no food obtainable in New Guinea beyond a few paw paws, bananas and coconuts. Supply officers still laugh grimly over the suggestion from headquarters that they supplement rations by buying in the open market. The food problem is aggravated because the soldiers won't eat mutton. "These boys simply won't touch sheep," says the exasperated mess officer who watches supplies of mutton pile...
Princeton's young sophomore hurler, John Eide, was paired with Mort Waldstein of Harvard as the two pitchers chosen for the second team, giving the alternate aggregation a brace of south-paw hurlers. Stocky Lee Turner, Cornell catcher, was named to the backstop position...