Word: taile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...decomposed by death. It was 25 ft. long, about 5 ft. around and its bluish-grey skin was covered with what seemed like fine white hairs. What was left of its head, hung on a 3-ft. neck, looked like a camel's. What was left of its tail looked like a seal's. It was disemboweled. Rolling gently in the surf, its liver stretched out a full...
...Brunswick Pike. At one point, near Princeton, 250 motorists left their cars in snowbanks, put up for the night in filling stations, farms, hot dog stands. Chesapeake Bay shipping was partially paralyzed. The Eastern Shore of Maryland lay buried under a foot of snow. The gale lashed its angry tail when it reached Washington, ripped a huge hanging lantern out of the White House porch. In northern Florida, the storm threatened to wreck the citrus fruit crop with subfreezing temperatures at Jacksonville...
...White House was accused of "legalized murder." Able Correspondent Arthur Krock reported for his New York Times: "For the first time since the President was inaugurated ... his administration seems really on the defensive. . . . The signs grow that the Administration feels the airmail is a bear it has by the tail. It is anxious to let go. ... The problem is how to get out gracefully...
...Archangel to Vladivostok in one year. Last August he tried it again with the icebreaker Chelyuskin, setting out this time from Murmansk, through the empty wastes of the Barents and Kara Seas. In September the ice pack began fingering the Chelyuskin. Another Soviet icebreaker went to the rescue, turned tail before howling storms. Professor Schmidt and his men began chopping a path in the ice, nudging the Chelyuskin through it. In the hold eight hardy women helped to keep the fires burning. A new baby squawled its first aboard the icebreaker...
Last day of the races was marred by two more deaths. Attempting a spot parachute jump, a parachutist fouled his shrouds in the tail surfaces of the plane he was leaving. Plane and tangled jumper plummeted into Lake Pontchartrain. The plane's pilot was also killed. On the bright side, James R. ("Jimmy") Wedell, an adopted favorite son of Louisiana who builds fast little Wedell-Williams ships at Patterson, cleaned up most of the speed prizes without much competition. He won three firsts, did not break the record he holds for land planes (305 m.p.h.), but smashed the record...