Word: tails
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...picture and all over the place, and doctors were playing it. The Negro doctors who crowded the hotel were delegates to the annual convention of their own National Medical Association; the A.M.A. "observers" and their displays were there to persuade the N.M.A. to hitch itself as a tail to the A.M.A. kite. They failed to tie the knot...
...Your story on the Hiss trial wrapped the whole subject up for me, after weeks of frustrated wondering what it was all about. . . . Can you tell me why my newspapers quoted so sparely from those summation speeches? I could make neither head nor tail of the trial from their accounts...
...split second later, Humphrey witnessed a terrible spectacle. An Eastern Air Lines DC-3 on a flight from Boston to Memphis had seemingly materialized from nowhere, right out of the sun. The Navy fighter smashed squarely into it, knocked off its left wing and the tail assembly. As the pilot of the little Piper frantically dodged falling pieces of metal, the big plane began tumbling helplessly toward the earth...
...Americans on the same basis." Angry anti-Communist deputies chased him to the lobby; a Gaullist slapped him across both cheeks, drawing blood with a signet ring. Reinforcements rushed up and in no time a yelling, swaying free-for-all was on. Perspiring ushers in wing collars and tail coats barely managed to restore order...
Sirens wailed the alarm; ushers, as formally dressed as their French colleagues, charged into the fray, tail coats flying. The Communists seized chairs, broke them up into clubs. Senators doubled up as fists and feet hit their stomachs...