Word: squirrel
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...present editor made no pretense of being a Watterson. But well-mannered, well-intentioned George Barry Bingham, at 39 still boyishly handsome, had able lieutenants. The ablest of them, squirrel-cheeked Publisher Mark Foster Ethridge, is full of go-ahead schemes. The Washington bureau was expanding ; a fine new building would replace the ancient post office the papers now live in, four blocks south of the Mason-Dixon line...
...mongoose can climb trees. They climb trees like any squirrel...
...remembers the texture of things - a squirrel's fur, the thickening of a horse's mane in the frost, the glint of armor and the impact of wind on the pennons in the van. The imagery is swift, the pen races the thought, the heart beats time, the invention never falters, but be neath and around all this there is an atmosphere of tender pity, of universal friendliness, of how mellow a wisdom, how golden a simplicity...
Current Sabotage. In Albany, Ore., a squirrel short-circuited the city out of electricity and water (electric-pumped...
They rounded a bend, started up a concrete path and saw a pair of 20-mm. Jap guns aimed down the trail. Charlie got them with a squirrel-hunter's "bark" shot, hitting the rock wall beside the guns and splattering them with shell and rock fragments. Next he blasted open the heavy steel doors of a Jap tunnel and set off a store of enemy ammunition...