Word: skunk
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...stomach felt funny. My neck swelled, and my ears felt hot. "By God!" I thought, "I'm going to drag that skunk from his Cadillac and push his face...
...Communist, like a skunk, is often easier to identify than catch. No one knows this better than the Government's Loyalty Review Board, which has often tried to fire an employee for disloyalty, only to have the suspect throw up a fog of doubt and win reinstatement. Last week the Loyalty Board asked the President for permission to cut through the fog by tightening its rules to fit World War II standards. Instead of having to prove "reasonable grounds" of disloyalty, "it wanted to shift the emphasis and dismiss any employee when there was "reasonable doubt" that...
...endless multitude pours in upon us: dog salesmen, false-teeth makers, confidence men, skunk tamers. And we greet them with smiles...
Pits & Pie. Pogo, which frequently takes a poke at U.S. manners & morals, usually sticks to such personal problems as Porky's courting of Mam'selle Hepzibah, a skunk with a French accent. To help Porky, Albert and Churchy offer their services as serenaders, sing in typical Pogo style: "Oh, pick a pock of peach pits, pockets full of pie, foreign twenty blackboards baked until they...
...tragic, a small bare head covered with golden curls"). Before Line and bride can turn "to face the dark patch against the distant hills which marked the valley that one day would be their home," straight-shootin' Line calls the bluff of just about every shifty-eyed little skunk in South Pass...