Word: pawing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...million years has a normal guinea pig had five toes on each foot. It has had four toes on each front paw, three toes on each hind paw, a total of fourteen...
Jubilant at this unexpected, glorious news, the party workers rushed to tell Uncle Arthur who sat up in bed, had his back gently slapped, his big paw shaken. Actually the sick leader had been defeated. His hard-swearing, quarter-deck-pacing opponent, Rear-Admiral Gordon Campbell, V. C. retired, Conservative, who commanded British "Mystery Q Ships" during the War, had won Burnley by 8,209 votes. At "The Old Bull," when this terrible truth was known, party workers could not bring themselves to face the Chief...
...past years almost the most fun "Winnie" Churchill has had has been to rise up in the House of Commons, paw the air like a pink bear, and attack the financial bill (i. e. the Budget) presented by his archfoe gnomelike Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden...
...spreading a net around one end of a fallen hollow tree, hunters in Arkansas last week caught a 98-lb. timber wolf with only two toes on his right hind paw...
...years this wolf, called Two Toes because of mutilations suffered escaping from traps, had led his hungry pack through the forests of eastern Arkansas. The pack killed hundreds of sheep, goats, cows. Near the scattered bones enraged cattle owners always found the tracks of a huge, two-toed paw...