Word: tails
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...booklet telling Britons what to do if they should find a whale on their beach. The prescribed procedure was simple: fill out a form (N.H.M. Form 136 tidily enclosed in the booklet), and mail it to the Keeper of Zoology. Question No. 1 on the form read: "Is the tail horizontal?" Since all whales have horizontal tails, the questionnaire continued sensibly: "If the answer to this question is 'no,' it is not necessary to fill up the rest of this form...
...untrue. Sadly the paper confessed that "as a result of the mischievous idea of news competition held by the bourgeoisie, we are led to make a mess of things . . . [But] under the correct leadership of the Communist Party of China [we shall] throughly cut off our tail of bourgeois ideology...
...Alsatian dog from which he is never separated. Tito's face suddenly grew very gentle. "You always remember him," he said. Stepping outside, we found Tigar lolling in the sun. Catching sight of his master, the dog leapt up and joyously wagged what remained of his close-cropped tail...
Loudest & Longest. Harry Truman was in high good spirits at the way things had gone. Said he: "The Democratic Party is a national party, and not a sectional party any more. The tail no longer wags the dog." He boasted that the Democrats had won the election "without New York, without the industrial East and without the Solid South. And I am prouder of that than anything that ever happened to me." He added: "That doesn't mean that we are not inviting the industrial East and the Solid South and all the rest of the country to join...
...assignment he had picked graduates of tough schools. Husky Bill Mooney, 30, an ex-tail gunner who was shot down over Germany, had been trained on the police beat of Chicago's rough & ready City News Bureau (TIME, June 6). So had Fred Bird, 28, a Pacific combat pilot. They left the city room and were swallowed up by Skid...