Word: tails
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cougar-on-the-paw average about eight feet from nose to tail tip. Cougar skins without cougar in them run longer. From now on TIME'S catamount editor has been directed to bring them back alive...
...Field Security officers in Italy move into newly occupied towns along with, or only a few steps behind, the front-line combat troops. The security men make a quick check on the townspeople, find out who were the Fascist leaders and send them back to the lines at the tail end of batches of German prisoners. It doesn't take much detective work to uncover the town scoundrels. No overpowering display of authority is needed to get rid of them...
Next day Mr. MacMurray tackles the Administration. He starts at the tail end of a waiting line which, each time the aspirants move up a chair, ripples like a weary centipede. At last Mr. MacMurray learns that Mr. Ritchie has just gone...
...Detroit exhibit, auto designers had an imaginative picnic displaying postwar "dream cars." Dreamiest of the lot was a design by free-lance artist Ray Russell (see cut) who described the features: "Drive across Texas at 100 miles an hour . . . the tail fin to line her up at this speed. Plug in the two-way radio to order your dinner ahead. ... For a short cut across a river ... the Amphibian is at home on the water. . . . Navigation lights are for cruising on a Venetian night. The four-wheel drive shifts to propellers. . . . The air-cooled motor in the rear operates...
Last week officials in Suez (pop. 49,686) were vigorously stamping out what they hoped was the tail end of a "sharp out break" of bubonic plague...