Word: tails
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...darkness, with radio locators or searchlights, they spotted every ship in the convoy. They sank nine and left the tenth, a tanker, blazing fiercely. For good measure they sent down (by Italian admission) two enemy destroyers. Presumably the Italian cruisers, fearful that a British battleship was near by, turned tail and fled. The entire British squadron got back to Malta unscathed...
...France in plain brown velvet knee breeches he was called uncouth. When Ambassador Charles Gates Dawes refused to expose his shanks to the Court of St. James's in knee breeches he stirred comment. When Ambassador Joseph Patrick Kennedy showed up at the same court in a tail coat, someone said he looked like "one of the less important waiters...
...Owners of three-gaited and five-gaited saddle horses will continue to exhibit their pets with set-up tails, despite the crusade of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals to abolish an age-old practice recently outlawed in New York. To get around the law, exhibitors, with $10,000 to $20,000 invested in each of their plume-tailed beauties, have procured affidavits from veterinarians certifying that the tail-setting operation (in which muscles are cut and the tail forced up into an unnatural arch) was performed for the health of the horse. For some reason...
...Shelley reminded him (he said) of a serpent that walked on the tip of its tail -so strange and rapid were his movements, so remote his habits-glistening, ubiquitous, and hard to capture." Trelawny did not discover that of him Byron had said: "If they could teach Trelawny to wash his hands and tell the truth, they would have some hope of turning him out a gentleman...
...aims, like a cat held up by the tail, have a way of clawing back at those who propose them. One of the eight points propounded by President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill at their conference in the Atlantic provides for the unilateral disarmament of the aggressor nations. That provision has sharpened the claws of Naziism, since it has helped to unite behind the Hitler government all those who dislike the cynical brutality and aggression of their regime and are reluctant to concede that National Socialism is the only alternative to complete defeat and prostration...