Word: possum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Airedales (Navy airmen) were disappointed. Mourned a bomber pilot: "We were loaded for bear and bagged a possum. What a flotilla to waste on a postage-stamp air ferrying base...
...Texas, the creation of many large dams (Possum Kingdom, Buchanan and Ford) have produced fresh fishing areas well stocked with sporty perch and bass...
...Played possum when the question of Term IV was raised for the first time at a press conference. Asked if he had any views to express on recent interviews with Democratic Party members, during which Term IV was mentioned, the President suggested "Let's get on with the war." But even while the President was holding his conference, other conferences were being held with Democratic bigwigs in the Midwest by evasive Democratic National Chairman Frank C. Walker, head of the delegation that called on the President a fortnight ago mumbling a request that he run again (TIME, March...
...advantage against Australian troops (accustomed to a dry desert climate). Wearily the Australians and some U.S. service troops (engineers, etc.) prepared for a last-ditch stand. The fighting was so fierce that "no prisoners have been taken yet." Australians said the Japs killed their own wounded, played "possum" among dead soldiers and rose up to throw hand grenades...
...Bravely, Noel tried to make himself into a St. Louis businessman, realized at last that it was no use, returned to the land. Ostensibly the story of a boy growing up on a prosperous farm, The Sundowners owes its peculiar flavor to rich, meditative asides on dogs, horses, foxes, possum-hunting, night fishing, local dialect...