Word: tails
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Suddenly down the steep bank rushed one of the boatmen, shouting and waving a dragon's red-and-gold head and twisted tail. Drums and gongs beat madly, rockets hissed, the galleries roared-and the race was on. Twice across the river the rowers strained. In other times, the crews decided the outcome by fighting. Now, from a judges' junk, the winners received their prizes: bright red sashes...
Animal Kingdom. In Boise, Idaho, Mrs. Lee Berry took two dozen baby chicks into her house to keep them warm, thereby exhausted her pointer, Sandy, who stood with nose and tail extended and one forefoot raised for four hours. In Atlantic City, Clifford H. Lee got his German shepherd back from Dogs for Defense, which had given up trying to make Fritz bite the enemy. In Chicago, Joseph Bosnyak, whose wife liked cats, got a divorce after he had testified: "I ate with cats. I slept with cats. ... It was nothing for me to wake up ... and find...
...bombers lurched frantically for the cover of their own antiaircraft. The Zeros piled into the Lightnings and both top covers swirled in a thundering dogfight. Down below, Lieut. Rex T. Barber whipped into a bomber, sawed off its tail with a burst of fire, knocked off a second as he pulled out of the attack...
...discovered last December had been acting queerly, it was still the same old comet. Observatories in England have reported that the body has been much brighter than its supposed orbit would indicate, but Whipple professed ignorance of the subject. The comet is rather small, as comets go, with a tail approximately one million miles in length, but could be seen with ordinary field glasses on a clear night...
Visibility was zero. On his first pass the pilot missed the field; he circled for another try. Staff Sergeant George A. Eisel, in the tail turret, caught a blurry glimpse of the ground. Then, with a rending crash, the plane tore itself to wreckage against a low hillside. Eisel was hurled from his seat, forward among the dead. Flames licked close enough to singe his eyelashes before drenching rain put the fire out; 26 hours later he was able to tell rescuers what had happened...