Word: taile
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...ever grab a tiger by the tail, don't let go. Its revenge will be swift and certain...
...women's studies search came at the tail-end of a great rise in the area's prominence in American universities. "The field is much more developed at other universities than it is here," says one professor. "Harvard's been a little late in coming...
...snorted when I read the two letters you published protesting Peking's program to rid the city of dogs [Jan. 2]. Obviously your correspondents are unknowledgeable about Chinese dogs. Those I remember were ugly, snarling, malnourished, unlovely beasts that would threaten you but then turn tail and run if you stooped as though to pick up a stone...
...reason: Scott Knapp, engineer of the Ann Blessey, makes $110 a day to run the tow's engines for an hour. Wills' $210 a day comes painlessly as well: he spends about two hours monitoring the radio and "wheel-washing"-wagging the boat's tail to keep the craft from becoming frozen in place like the barges...
...large, hollow sycamores as barns or even dwellings), homely anecdotes (the willow posts in a neighbor's fence that took root and grew into a row of trees), and vivid turns of phrase (the black spruce needles that grow all around the twig "like the hair on the tail of an angry cat"). Borland's concern for conservation is all the more effective for its understatement, as when he quietly notes that the scientist who measured the age of a California bristlecone pine at approximately 5,000 years cut it down in the process, thus destroying "the oldest...