Word: piebald
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...skewbald horse is splotched with white and one of several shades of brown; a piebald is black and white...
...Prime Ministers did their bit to breathe some fire into the electioneering. "Mr. Attlee is certainly tough," taunted Sir Winston Churchill, "or he would not have kept the lead of his party for so long," but since Labor is so divided, "the best he can do is be a piebald." Replied Clem Attlee: "Sir Winston has always been a bit of a chameleon, a funny little animal that changes color. He began as a Conservative, was a Liberal for 18 years, then an Independent and ... a Conservative again. I don't know whether that makes him piebald, skewbald...
...factory towns. Westinghouse has started holding regional annual meetings around the U.S. so that as many stockholders as possible can attend. Matson lines takes its stockholders on a gala tour of its luxury liner Lurline. Chas. Pfizer & Co., maker of antibiotics, once brought in eight piebald baby pigs and a testy tiger cub to demonstrate the benefits of a new synthetic milk product. Chesapeake Industries perked up its annual meeting this year with a special preview of Hollywood's Crossed Swords, starring Errol Flynn and Italy's buxom Gina Lollobrigida, to show off a new film process developed...
Boom! Boom! Boom! A fortnight ago, after a rugged game against Brown-a game which Kazmaier won, 12-0, with touchdown sprints of 13 and 61 yards on a field piebald with mud and snow-Trainer Eddie Zanfrini gave Caldwell the casualty report, ending with: "My gosh, Kaz is black and blue all over." But Dick is durable. In three years of varsity competition, he has missed only one sequence of plays (two minutes) when he was needed. That time he was knocked cold...