Word: tailed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...animal moment, when he sorted out her tail...
...life of Frederick William Rolfe, who died in 1913 at the age of 53 and was, to put it simply, as mad as a hatter. He disgraced himself at Oxford by going to a fancy dress ball as a raven and voiding a pint of whitewash from his tail in front of the Prince of Wales. He converted to Roman Catholicism and, in pursuit of holy orders, got himself expelled from two different seminaries for "lack of vocation." He then assumed the bogus title Baron Corvo and tried his loser's hand at painting, photography, journalism and schoolteaching - ending...
...next month, he will take charge of an economy that has been growing fast for years, and lately has been expanding too rapidly for its own good. Business has been on the up swing for 95 months - since February 1961, the month after John Kennedy took office at the tail end of a recession. Though the Democratic policymakers certainly cannot claim all the credit for the longest advance in the nation's history, they have done a conspicuous amount of managing and masterminding through their Keynesian New Economics. They leave behind a remarkable record for the Republicans...
...NATO treaty arrangements with Turkey and that nation's stranglehold on Soviet entry to the Mediterranean, it is hard to believe that imaginative U.S. policymakers could not take counteractions (e.g., an American "presence" in the Black Sea) that would give the Russian Bear a severe case of twisted tail...
...fallen largely because of heavy competition from fish oil; whale oil is now $163 a ton, one-third less than it was a decade ago. One way to overcome the price drop might be to follow the Japanese example and process every part of a whale, from tooth to tail fluke. But this means a considerable extra investment in factory-ship equipment that the Norwegians are no longer willing to make, especially since their government, while urging them to continue whaling, has offered no subsidy to make it profitable. When Jahre tied up his factory ship Kosmos IV, it marked...