Word: taillessness
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...zealous chef hacked off its head and tail, was about to cook it for the President's dinner, when at the White House arrived Maine's Congressman Donald Francis Snow. Seizing the fish, Mr. Snow hastily stitched its head back on with a needle and thread, wrapped its tailless end up in a piece of paper, hurried out to the White House posing ground, presented the piscatorial patchwork to the President before a battery of cameras...
...Tailless Plane. A triangular shaped "stork" plane, lacking conventional tail structure, flew 78 m.p.h. with a 8-h.p. motor, at Berlin. Its constructor, Alexander Lippisch, thus approximated the flying goal of an all-wing ship...
...Tailless mice, upon which, as a race, there periodically comes an urge to descend to the sea and drown by the million...
...muscle and whose footwork as she bounded on the deck proclaimed that she could take a fall out of any man not specially trained to withstand her"; Oilskin Jack and Bonita Sam, who finally wearied of sailoring and bought a little farm in Australia with an asthmatic horse, a "tailless rooster and two scolding hens" for equipment; and the sailmaker, who had such an eloquent sniff that he needed no other means of communication...
...Carson Tailless on Clever Pass...