Word: tails
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Varsity fencers stand a good chance of slicing the tail off the Tiger when they cross swords with Princeton today at 2:30 o'clock in the Blockhouse...
...Soup. In Naboomspruit, Transvaal, Solomon Macheke got three months at hard labor (and five strokes of the lash) for biting the tail off a fractious...
...year-old Nelson and Rodney were something special. They were unlike all other battleships; all their big guns were massed on long, sweeping bows, and could not be trained astern. Navymen liked to believe that they were designed on the proud premise that a British battleship would never turn tail. Now that they were obsolete, economy dictated the ships' retirement. The five veterans, said Viscount Hall, "would be of very little value in any future...
...shack on the ruins of their old home. While they huddled over a charcoal fire, as the midnight gong beat out the old year, Akai San heard a scratching at the door. Outside, a shabby dog whined and howled. "Go away, mutt!" shouted Akai, but the dog waved his tail and, crawling on his belly, came even closer. Suddenly recognition came. "It's Fifty Bells!" shouted Akai, hugging the dog, while the family gathered in wonder...
...like to try a twist at the tail of the cosmos," wrote the late "Great Dissenter," Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, to a philosopher friend. The letters, published for the first time last week, were composed in a scrawl and were knotty with Holmesian twists...