Word: scruff
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Deftly a girl picks up a cancer fragment with a trocar (a tubular needle with a plunger inside). She grabs a faintly squeaking mouse, holds it by the scruff of its neck, efficiently jabs the trocar into the skin of its belly and up under a front leg. She plants the cancer by pushing it out with the plunger. Then she reaches for another mouse...
...Quito a model for Ecuador, brought in the country's first combine, six tractors, and blooded Holstein-Friesian herds. In 1938 he became Defense Minister. Galo Plaza quelled one students' strike by ringing the university with troops, entering and dragging out the two ringleaders by the scruff of their necks, then persuading the rest to quit...
Owning up to the fact that it had been a bad boy, the War Assets Administration last week grabbed itself by the scruff of the neck, and shook itself violently. It shook out 32 out of 89 key employes in one of its major sales divisions and canceled 32 contracts to sell goods at a commission of 10% plus sales costs. In the future, said WAA, agents would get only a fixed fee (30 to 35%) and pay their own costs. One reason: an agent had charged WAA several thousands of dollars for storage costs on a $14 sale...
Both were wrong. Next day Cairo's crooked streets spawned more trouble. More stores, Arab as well as foreign, were looted, and synagogues in Cairo and Alexandria were set afire. Doughty Premier Nokrashy Pasha personally seized two pillagers by the scruff of the neck, had them arrested. By the second nightfall more than 1,000 persons had been jailed in Cairo alone, many of them for looting...
...Italy or Australia reminds them of something at home. More often they are reminded of home because things are so different where they are. Sometimes they write apropos of nothing: "How I would like to be back at Virginia Beach in October's bright blue weather, to scruff through the flaming new fallen leaves with a gun under my arm." "I remember Grandpa's study with its old leather chair." Where They Went. War scattered them in all directions. It picked them up out of their home towns and set them down in the middle of North Africa...