Word: paws
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Parliament, Socialist Leader Pietro Nenni, who often acts as a Communist cat's-paw, called for a vote of no-confidence in the Government of Premier Alcide de Gasperi. The Communists were preparing to re-enter the Government, where their disruptive power at this critical time would be greatly increased. The vote was postponed, but for Premier de Gasperi it was a close shave...
...remarkably long and effective delayed entrance for its star, Humphrey Bogart. During the first several reels, the camera-along with the audience-sees the world through the hero's eyes: rolling downhill in a barrel (he is a convict making a break); watching a cop's hand paw dangerously into his hideout in Lauren Bacall's auto (he is a convict getting a break); watching Miss Bacall register lovelight as she looks into the lens (a break cinemaddicts have had before...
Since Lassie's radio venture, the demand for his autograph has increased so greatly that Trainer Weatherwax has decided to have the dog fitted with an inked paw-pad bearing his picture. Consumption of Red Heart Dog Food has also increased, at least in the Weatherwax household. Once Weatherwax even fed some Red Heart sandwiches to unsuspecting guests...
...this lively joy, the Government hopes, will keep the tourists' attention from the tuberculous children of the Vallecas slums, or the cave dwellers in the sandy hills outside Madrid, or the beggars who inconsiderately paw at the sleeves of guests exhausted after a night's dancing at the lovely Ritz gardens. Madrid's unskilled workers live on cheap fish, beans, occasional rice, watered wine. The housing situation is desperate. After years of waiting, some young couples are still looking for a chance to sublet a single room in the city's cheapest slum before they...
...pair of tan brogues. He is the leader of millions of his fellow Nigerians who want independence from Britain. Some call him the Negro Gandhi, the jungle George Washington. His name is Nnamdi Azikiwe (rhymes with click away); he is the acacia thorn in the British lion's paw, the Bertie McCormick (see PRESS) of the Niger Delta, a coconut grove Jim Farley, and one of the few people in the world who got a high opinion of the U.S. from washing dishes in a Pittsburgh waffle foundry and having Pugilist Jackie Zivic poke thumbs in his eyes...