Word: skunking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Skunk Status. Abroad, criticism mounted. In London, the House of Commons passed an unprecedented resolution of condemnation of a Commonwealth partner's domestic policy, auguring trouble ahead when South Africa's delegate shows up for the Commonwealth prime ministers' conference in May. At this rate, wailed Die Surge", the Nationalist mouthpiece, South Africa would soon achieve "permanent status as the skunk of the world." Foreign Minister Eric Louw was unmoved. "We will not hand over control of South Africa to a native majority," he told a radio interviewer. "South Africa has gotten used to being slandered...
Complete Coverage. In Everett, Wash., Robert Follis sued his insurance company for the loss in value of his car after someone put an indignant skunk in the back seat and rolled up the windows...
...done, Bill will talk as loud and as long as any ring-tailed roarer that ever lived. "Born under a stump, suckled on sow bear milk and raised in jail," he proclaims. "I know every root in these parts, every huckleberry meadow, bee tree, strand of swamp grass and skunk-cabbage patch. To hunt bears, you've got to be as tough as a good old bear dog. Well, I'm tough, and I'm the best there is." He is probably right...