Word: tailed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...early June they were off Fort Sullivan, which stands at the tail end of a low, sandy, four-mile-long island that is roughly the shape of a sperm whale. It was built to guard the northern entrance to Charles Town Harbor, but its palmetto-wood walls are still incomplete on the shoreward sides, where they stand only 7 feet high. The British would seize the fort and garrison it, Clinton decided, and thus interdict all trade and privateer traffic to and from the busiest port south of Philadelphia...
...tropical honey-bear) in a treetop rising above the water, Walsh gave the order to move in. The cayuco bumped gently against the treetop, and an ax-wielding Indian hoisted himself onto a branch to chop through the trunk. As the treetop toppled, he caught the kinkajou by the tail before it hit the water. Soon the little bear was safely ensconced in a cage in mid-canoe. A black-vested anteater was rescued next, followed by an opossum, two sloths and even a 6-ft.-long tree boa. Explains Walsh: "I don't apologize for saving snakes...
...case of ad hominem; the man is easy to attack. His thought is far less susceptible to predators. To Kierkegaard, reason was devouring faith, like a snake swallowing its own tail. The solution was a radical renewal of Christian belief. To Nietzsche, humanity's theological license had expired, and man could either plunge into nihilism or freedom. This now classical alienation from faith became Heidegger's concern. In his seminal work, Being and Time, he set out to investigate the nature of existence. He tried to discard the Cartesian dualism of mind and matter. Heidegger...
Wielding his familiar giraffe-tail fly whisk, octogenarian Kenyan President Jomo Kenyatta, 85, this week will welcome more than 3,000 delegates from 152 countries to Nairobi's Kenyatta Conference Center-a building that looks like a 350-ft.-tall hair curler. The occasion: the quadrennial meeting of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), a group set up in 1964 primarily to give poor countries a forum in which to air their economic problems. In its three previous gatherings, UNCTAD has produced an elephantine mass of paper but little of substance. UNCTAD IV, which will meet...
First, he assisted Bobby Mellen in a man-up situation for the Crimson's third goal of the game. Then he scored on a pass from Steve Martin on the tail end of a fast break triggered by Chris Ecker. A minute later, he fed the ball to Giles Whalen for another tally, and then took his man one-on-one, beat him to the crease, and rifled the ball past Aburn...