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...leopard, however, did not enter into the Oklahoma City community spirit. After twitching his ropelike tail, baring his large yellow teeth and emitting rasping bursts of feline obscenities, he began trying to jump out of the pit in which he had been installed to serve his time. The sheer walls were 18 feet high, and this did him no good at all. But he kept jumping. One day last week he tried a bank shot-he hit one wall at an angle, ricocheted upward toward the next, and got over...
...Duff was used to twisting the tail of Joe Grundy's powerful Pennsylvania Manufacturers' Association. He had taken on the P.M.A. as soon as he became governor in 1946, had licked them to a standstill ever since. He had outraged Grundymen by insisting that manufacturers purify or divert their wastes from the state's polluted rivers and streams, by forcing mine operators to reforest the huge scars made by strip mining, by establishing public recreation areas and raising unemployment insurance. He had tangled with Joe Grundy again at the 1948 convention when he refused to clamber aboard...
...play called Desire Caught by the Tail, written in 1941 during the Nazi occupation of Paris by famed Artist Pablo Picasso, 68, was given its first public reading in London. The script called for the appearance on stage of writhing, disembodied feet, and a frying pan full of sizzling potatoes. Most critics agreed that Picasso had better stick to his paintbrushes...
Moving in on the tail of a cold snap that had classgoers shivering for two days, winter storms laid six to eight inches of snow over New England yesterday in time for Washington's Birthday...
...Spitzen-on-the-Dein, which soon seems a microcosm of all Germany, the year 1945 brings desolation, misery and hunger. The town "was as shriveled in structure and decomposed as an oxen's tongue black with ants." A lonely horse nuzzled the gutters as children hung to its tail; the undertaker had no more embalming fluid for his corpses; "everyone wore grey and over their shoulders were hitched empty cartridge belts." From the old concentration camp near by, the D.P. inmates burst out to freedom to add their misery to that of the gutted town...