Word: tail-end
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Earlier this month, he was the object of a wide sea-air search when he became ensnarled in the tail-end of a hurricane off Miami. He was later found safe...
...Miss McCormick -who appears to be a rather tall gal-in the act of ramming her snickersnee between the shoulders of an animal called (jokingly?) a bull . . . In Wyoming, such a pore little critter, although admittedly a male, wouldn't be classed as a bull but as a tail-end yearlin'. Lack of size and length of horns denote immaturity. His contours suggest he was dogied while very young. Quite possibly he was a convalescent from aftosa; certainly his home range has had a long dry spell. The carcass must have been quite inferior carne. But for Miss...
Turnstiles v. Brain. That was when Rickey took over the job of front-office man for the tail-end St. Louis Cardinals. Rickey and a new owner, the late Sam Breadon, found the club $175,000 in debt. General Manager Rickey tackled the job of putting the club on its feet...
...Tail-end Outfield...
...ashore at Port Said." He received a stern classical schooling at Winchester (the twelfth of his line to go there), proceeded comfortably through Sandhurst, then, like his father before him, joined the Black Watch Regiment, in which he was a kilted second lieutenant. As a subaltern he saw the tail-end of the Boer War. Later Wavell returned to India for a spell of soldiering, pigsticking, horse racing, and Kiplingesque social doings at Peshawar...