Word: talonic
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...CURIOUS Beast might have been a Chimera, Except that the Head and skinny Neck, and great, drooping Tail of a Cock, were affixed to the Body of an Ass. Flopping at either Flank was a huge, Sludge-colored Wing, from the Tip of each of which grew a small Talon, causing great Mystery. Each hoof was a giant Talon grappling the Floor...
...Argument, an Attempt was made to move them from the crowded Station to Pasture. They loudly protested. One of them ripped a County Fair Poster from the hands of an unwary Bystander with a talloned Wing-tip and flapped it wildly on high. The Mystery of the tiny Talon was solved. The Colony was scraped from the Experimental Station into the Farmyard...
...left Hand was a Crocodile-bound Edition of Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations. Dropping from his Right was a golden Sling, in whose Pouch rested a Bronze-studded, Morocco-bound Copy of Samuelson's Economics. Gazing down with Compassion at the charging, wildly braying, thundering Hordes, a Talon grazed near...
...Your fig leaf cover carries the encouraging business note that even if the movement toward disrobing finally catches us all, there will still be a useful purpose and market for the products of Textron's Talon division...
...heads Textron Inc., the oldest and one of the soundest conglomerates, and he is an articulate critic of racier companies. Textron, which started the conglomerate trend nearly two decades ago, has acquired the kind of image that newer conglomerates covet. Miller picked up two more companies last year ?Talon zippers and Fafnir bearings?but Textron seems less interested in acquiring new branches than in managing and expanding the many that it already has. Its 33 diverse divisions turn out Bell helicopters, Sheaffer pens, Speidel watchbands, Gorham silverware, Bostitch staplers and some 70 other products. Last year the company earned...