Word: tails
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Afraid? In Sault Sainte Marie, Ont., Alvin Phalen, a trapper, grabbed a wolf by the tail, dragged it over the snow, beat it to death with one of his skis...
...grandeur of royalty. In front, with mincing step, walked Party Chairman Ralph Assheton. Behind came a retinue of Cabinet Ministers. The 2,000 delegates waved agenda sheets in well-bred excitement, burst into a politely modulated For He's a Jolly Good Fellow. Rosy-cheeked and beaming, in tail coat and striped trousers, "Winnie" waved back. Then he launched into his speech...
Sergeant Sabu ("Elephant Boy") Dastagir, 22-year-old Indian who gained fame & fortune in peacetime films riding on the back of an elephant, was awarded the D.F.C. for riding a U.S. bomber as a tail gunner in an attack on a Japanese convoy off Borneo...
...Kekule's vision of the benzene ring, which has been called "the most brilliant piece of prediction to be found in the whole range of organic chemistry," came to him in a dream about snakes. He wrote: "One of the snakes seized its own tail and the image whirled scornfully before my eyes. As though from a flash of lightning I awoke . . . occupied the rest of the night working out the consequences of the hypothesis...
...mixture, propeller pitch, etc., has only three controls to operate: the stick, the throttle and rudder pedals. Test pilots have found the P-59 more maneuverable in the air than a conventional plane. Taxiing on the ground is tricky. Because there is no propeller to blow wind against the tail and rudder control surfaces for steering, pilots steer with the wheel brakes...