Word: pawing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ottawa Conference had demonstrated the control which the Conservative party possesses and proposes to exercise over the nation's tariff policy. In a trenchant and bitter denunciation of the Conservatives, Viscount Snowden has warned Prime Minister MacDonald that he has become little more than a "cat's paw" to the high tariff group, that such a policy is likely to be fatal to British trade and to international peace, and that the crisis for which the Nationalist Government was created has now been successfully passed...
...first and second rounds were about even In the third, Sharkey's left hand, quick and dangerous as a tiger's paw, be gan to flick Schmeling's nose. It nicked more frequently in the fourth and fifth, jarring Schmeling's jaw, stabbing his right eye. Schmeling began to come in more savagely in the sixth and seventh which was just what Sharkey, a smart counter-fighter, wanted. He moved away, boxing beautifully, stiffening his left arm against Schmeling's head, shifting so skilfully that Schmeling, in his eagerness to land a solid punch, several...
...parade was sized up very well by a young lady in a green dress who stood in front of the Blackstone for half an hour," said Sportswriter Damon Runyan. "She said, finally: 'Well, it isn't so exciting, but it saves us hearing a lot of complaint from Paw tonight about his sore feet...
...Byron, Bryan and a man named Bugg. He told funny stories (the widow at her husband's funeral who was so surprised at the preacher's eulogy that she sent her son up to look into the coffin to see if the dead man really was his "paw"); sad stories (the stepson who received a pair of brogans at Christmas while the other children got fine shoes and then complained that they hurt him not in the feet but in the heart). He treated the Senate to a long legendary account of Roland of Roncesvalles who "guarded...
...YOUTHFUL TRAINER DEMONSTRATING MAN'S POWER OVER FEROCIOUS BEASTS OF THE JUNGLE." While lurid red lights play on a circular cage in the centre ring. Trainer Beatty, armed with whip, chair and blank-loaded revolver, assembles some 40 lions & tigers, puts them through paces. The beasts snarl, hiss, roar, paw each other and Mr. Beatty, but nobody is hurt. The lions & tigers are frequently stubborn, which gives Mr. Beatty an opportunity to demonstrate his undeniable courage. Sometimes one will leap at him; then his revolver makes lightning in the dim cage and the beast receives a whiplash. Two laconic...