Word: shoat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...animals exposed to the atom-bomb blast and radiation in the 1946 Operation Crossroads, none won greater fame than Pig No. 311. A wriggly, 50-lb. shoat, No. 311 was locked in the officers' head (toilet) of the Japanese light cruiser Sakawa. Hours later, after the Sakawa had sunk, No. 311 was found swimming gamely in the radiation-polluted waters of Bikini Lagoon. She was irritable, and had a low blood count, but 'within a month she seemed to have recovered...
Trussed up like a shoat bound for market, a Curtiss Kittihawk fighter plane spewed bullets into a wood and earth bunker at Buffalo. In the Army's first public demonstration of warplane firepower since Pearl Harbor, the gas-pipe-like guns threw more than 387 Ib. of lead and armor-piercing steel per minute, clattering like a dozen riveting hammers inside a caisson...
...science classes at School Street Elementary School, in Westbury, L. I., pupils study live mice, rabbits, ducks, chicks. They are fond of their pets. One day last October, they got a ten-pound Poland China shoat, six weeks old. Three hundred science pupils took a vote, decided to nickname him Fat Stuff. They made him a nice clean pen with a big trough, running water and a straw bed. They watched him get three vaccinations against hog diseases. They took delight in feeding him tidbits, fed him so well that in three months he grew to 120 pounds...