Word: tailed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Resort, gloomily reports that last year he had 46 reservations for deer season; this year he had only three. Says Bruns, who quit his job as a welding supervisor in the Twin Cities eight years ago to move to the reservation: "We figured we had the world by the tail until this thing came up. Now it looks like we're furnishing the tail...
...council edge--just barely. Walter Sullivan, as usual, led all comers in the vote, but his margin slipped--he only beat his liberal namesake David by 26 votes. Relying on his strong personal network, Walter Sullivan, an assistant clerk of courts whose father served as a councilor at the tail end of the Depression and who is entering his 13th term on the board, will keep his seat as long as he wants it--more than can be said for most of his independent mates...
Despite the fine performances expected from freshman Beckford and junior Johanna Forman, it will be tough to trust the Tiger's tail. Princeton boasts an 8-0 record in dual meets and will send seven harriers to the Nationals while Harvard's lone representative at that event will be Beckford, who qualified earlier this week with her eighth place finish in the Easterns...
Brutal as last week's floggings may have been, they were more humane than those carried out when Zia first imposed Islamic justice. Among other things, the government has replaced cat-o'-nine-tail with the relatively less lethal Malacca canes. Prisoners sometimes died when beaten with the multilash whips. Now the worst that they suffer are scars that they may carry for the rest of their lives...
...eyes look right--the green tail of the Pope's plane comes slowly into view through the mist. It taxis slowly to position but overshoots the steps. The door opens and a stewardess appears. A photographer swears, having wasted two shots on what he thought was the Pope. Humberto Cardinal Medeiros heads up the ramp, the U.S. Chief of Protocol in tow. First Lady Rosalynn Carter is conspicuous in a black skirt-and-jacket-suit with a matching hat that could only be a bowler. The Pope makes his first appearance in the U.S. during his pontiffship and the dignitaries...