Word: taile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...team of Wedgwood & Churchill was also effective last week in scoring Ramsay MacDonald's tour of Europe in behalf of peace and the Mussolini Four-Power Pact (TIME. March 27). Said Winston Churchill: "We have got our modern Don Quixote home again, with Sancho Panza at his tail, bearing with them these somewhat dubious trophies which they have collected amidst the nervous tittering of Europe...
...gave the appearance of a large floodlight being turned on in the sky. In a second or so it grew too bright for me. We were at about the same altitude. In a moment I caught sight of its tail and could tell that it was going north...
...line of flight was probably 40 or 50 miles distant. At any rate it was so close I could see fiery fragments of the meteor whirling away from it and dropping back into the tail...
...Aside from the fact that a newly shot alligator rarely floats, super-human strength and an extraordinary machete would be required to sever a large alligator's tail with a single blow...
...measured mile, the crowd on the dunes saw the huge crocodile-shaped car with its high steering tail, rocket past almost faster than they could turn their heads. Sir Malcolm put on his brakes when he had throttled down to 100 m.p.h., learned from mechanics who changed his sand-soaked tires that he had covered the mile in 13:16 sec. (273.5 m.p.h.). A few moments later he was at the north end of the beach, where he had started. His speed for the return run was 270.6 m.p.h. The average, 272.1 m.p.h., put mankind's record for land...