Word: taile
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...tail, Wol was using it as a bell pull...
...tiger by the tail it's plain...
...recognized. Unfortunately, as he well knew, he was a man who "weeps because the very seals in the zoo aren't crazy about him." Friends tired of his flattery and aggressive bids for attention. Stravinsky called him "an embarrassing young man": Picasso concluded that he was "the tail of my comet...
...celebration, half a dozen women frolicked nude in the plaza fountain behind Government House. In Santiago's Constitution Square, a man paid off an election bet by carrying an open umbrella on a sunny afternoon and wearing a donkey tail. But other Chileans panicked at the news. Fearful of a stampede of scared investors, the Santiago stock market closed for a day for the first time since 1938, and depositors withdrew massive funds from Chilean banks. The black-market rate for the escudo soared to as high as 50 to the U.S. dollar-as compared with...
...last drizzly day of October 1968, 36-year-old Donald Crowhurst set sail out of Teignmouth, England, the tail-end starter in a single-handed nonstop sailboat race around the world. Eight months later, newspapers reported Crowhurst on the last leg of his voyage making excellent speed and sure to finish with the fastest time. Then came word that a freighter had discovered Crowhurst's yacht, ghosting along under its mizzen but still seaworthy, mysteriously abandoned in mid-Atlantic...