Word: pawing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...machines. Only four factories in the country produce nonrun nylons, and the 83 stocking-repair shops in Moscow are so far behind that it may take a month to fix a pair of hose. Square-fingered Soviet gloves, complained Izvestia, "make even the most graceful hand look like a paw." Hair rinses, shampoos and large curlers are hard to find; one reporter in Moscow waited more than four hours for a hair dresser, still was twelfth in line when the shop was ready to close. Concluded Izvestia: "If you want to look beautiful, you must suffer...
...time, even when he is rummaging through a garbage can or swatting somebody in the head. Like TV's cartoon Yogi Bear, the beasts at Yellowstone are "smarter than the average bear": they can open automobile doors, and some have been known to slip a paw through a small ventilator window of a car and open the door from the inside. At Yellowstone recently, a good-sized black bear ambled up to a picnic table where two couples were dining. Three of the people quickly withdrew, but the hostess stayed put. "I cooked this breakfast," cried she angrily...
...cute, but Author Maxwell resists the temptation. He writes about animals and nature as well as anyone in the field, and he is never cloying when he describes how Mij toused like a dog with his favorite rubber eclair, lay endlessly on his back juggling anything that came to paw, or hid underneath the rug and then leaped out like a tiger on the first passerby...
...Socialists have tried to make Yamaguchi one of the top issues in the current Japanese election campaign. They called him a "cat's paw of monopolistic capitalist forces" (by which they meant Premier Hayato Ikeda's ruling Liberal Democrats) and paraded Asanuma's widow about in hope of a sympathy vote. After Yamaguchi's hanged body was found, Saburo Eda, acting chairman of the Socialists, shifted his ground and growled: "The fact that an important criminal was able to commit suicide exposes the utter irresponsibility of the authorities in charge...
...three disabilities that pelvis-twirling Elvis Presley might most fear are a sore throat, a dislocated hip, or an injury to his guitar-strumming paw. During his recent Army draftee stint he was briefly silenced by tonsillitis. Last week, during a touch-football game in home-town Memphis, Elvis dived at the ball carrier, broke the little finger of his string-zinging hand. His hips, however, are still swinging...