Word: raccoons
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...have the special power, which usually belongs to poetry, of haunting the mind. They concern simple people-old Negroes, religious cranks, illiterate feudists, solitary operators of no-hope junkyards, and the quietly desperate people who hope to sell hamburgers by luring stray tourists with a caged eagle, a chained raccoon and a stuffed rattlesnake...
...lucky curve" -a curved ink-feeding device that prevented ink from leaking when the pen was stored upright in a user's pocket. He kept adding technical improvements, caught the public fancy with such gimmicks as the showy orange and black Duofold pen that be came the raccoon coat of the pen indus try in the 1920s, and soon was leading all the world's penmakers in sales-a distinction his company still holds. Over the years since then, his company has introduced the first pen with a metal cap, the first pen that could fly (could...
...have read the letter from the lady who thinks I shouldn't have learned to read the way my mother taught me. I do know how to spell raccoon. We had one in camp when my family went to Maine. It came at night. JONNY WENKART (Aged 7) Cambridge, Mass...
...sounds: "I told Jonny that when two big round o's get together they look at each other and say 'oo!' and I taught him short a as in cat. Then I figured out sentences-A kangaroo has a hoola hoop. A rat and a fat raccoon. Dad has a bamboo hat. Can I pat a baboon...
...resurgence was even sweeter because it was so long overdue. When Daddy drove a flivver and raccoon coats were all the rage, West Coast football took a rumble seat to none. But after World War II, the once proud West suffered painful indignities. Only three times in 15 years did a Western team win in the Rose Bowl; of 114 games with the Big Ten, the West won only 38, But last week all that was changed, and the best in the West were a match for any in the U.S. The best...