Word: tails
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Twisted Tail. The roaring was begun by the London Economist, a formidably good-mannered weekly which has no U.S. counterpart but might be described as a cross between the Wall Street Journal and a New Republic with muscles.* Along with most of the British press (notably excepting Lord Rothermere's Daily Mail), the Economist throughout the war has heeded official injunctions to go easy on America. Last week, just in time to be answered by President Roosevelt (see U.S. AT WAR), Economist Editor Geoffrey Crowther shed his inhibitions and stepped out, blowing hard...
...Henceforward, if British policies and precautions are to be traded against American promises, the only safe terms are cash on delivery. And if Americans find this attitude too cynical or suspicious, they should draw the conclusion that they have twisted the lion's tail once too often...
...Twist a Tail. What put the Lion in such an uproar? In the U.S., for the best part of a year, there had been less than usual anti-British criticism. At year's end, British policy in Greece had disturbed Americans. But no Briton had been more eloquent than the New York Times, among others, in pleading for U.S. understanding of Britain's power-political necessities...
Prodigious Silence. All day and through the evening we drove down the road toward Kwangsi. Refugees flanked us in unbroken columns. This was the tail end of one of the longest treks in the history of the China war. I had seen these refugees start their march five months before on the dusty roads of Hunan, where the sun leeched sweat from every pore, where human bodies and the fields about them were parched moistureless. Now, 600 miles away, these refugees were still trudging-the friendless, the halt and the sick-overtaken by the merciless blast of the Kweichow winter...
...long procession troop Susannah, Frankie & Johnnie, Captain Jinks, Casey Jones, Daisy with her answer true. And easy, engaging Ballad Singer Burl Ives throws in his own specialties-Foggy, Foggy Dew, Blue Tail Fly, and that luscious glimpse of Hobo Heaven, Rock Candy Mountain...