Word: skunk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...page-one cartoon, the Tribune dramatized its own nobility. Around a forthright central figure curiously reminiscent of a Johnnie Walker whiskey ad revolved the Tribune's detractors in their ugliest guise: Spiders H. V. Kaltenborn and Walter Winchell with microphones; Moths Marshall Field and Frank Knox; Skunk Harold Ickes; cigaret-smoking Hen Dorothy Thompson; a lean crow representing the New York Herald Tribune, which dared recently to comment on some of the Chicago Tribune's antics...
...lowest flophouses and gambling dens of Mexico City, where "there are but two rules: luck and cheating. The former is more lawful, but the latter is surer." In jail the prisoners rob him and empty their slop pots over him (Poll cheerfully reports himself as clown, coward, butt and skunk...
...little hoeing in your own garden? You may not know it, but since last June your patch has become so infested with Red skunk cabbage that it is beginning to be a nuisance to the neighborhood...
...skunk had wandered on to the floor of the House, Congressmen could not have watched it more nervously than they watched the 1941 Tax Bill, just sent in by the Ways & Means Committee. But under the gag rule to bar amendments from the floor (which Republicans planned to fight as usual, expecting as usual to lose) they could only wring their hands, utter a few pained monosyllables, then vote on the bill. They were expected to do their duty by passing it this week...
...Second had violated another Pattonism. Meeting abler anti-tank tactics from the 27th and 30th than it had expected, it had lost many tanks. D.S.C.Man Patton had warned them of the danger of 75s along the roadside. Said he (amended version): "Never engage in a scenting match with a skunk." The Second, relying on its own strength, had failed to use its infantry, and the failure had been expensive. It had also failed to coordinate its work with its allied Fifth Division, and been cited by the umpires for the failure...