Word: terrapin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...discreet getaway, ran into a nosey hanger-on, declared testily that the speaker had gone "too far," and that "the time has come to draw the mantle of charity over all that." The ladies were reduced to angry bewilderment. But unreconstructed Dr. Tansill was still snapping like a terrapin. Said he: "You can see how badly the South was beaten that the defeatist attitude should last so long...
...Baltimore, a motorized column of University of Maryland students staged a night attack on Johns Hopkins University. Provocation: the kidnapping of a 400-lb. bronze terrapin from the University of Maryland campus. The invaders had to battle through barbed-wire entanglements and streams from fire hoses, were foiled when they got into the main dormitory-the defenders had covered the floors with a slippery mixture of soap chips and water...
Only a few months ago these fulsome phrases would have had a hollow ring. Last week, stuffed with terrapin soup, lobster newburg and filet mignon, Democrats nodded approvingly...
Since the great day when Aesop's tortoise nosed out the over-confident hare, turtle racing had come a long way. Last week a 25-year-old terrapin named Arkansas Express ran away with Loyola University's first turtle derby. He was bought in a fish market a month ago, and trained by pre-med students, who used Pavlov's theory of the conditioned reflex. Main feature: the "gait-straightener"-a practice track with a picture of a heron on one side, a pike on the other (both are natural enemies of the turtle...
About 80 Congressmen- and some 180 free riders-sat down with tieless, sport-shirted Bill Jack, ate seafood cocktail with Russian dressing, tiny brown-bread-&-cheese sandwiches, terrapin soup, breast of capon and Virginia ham, potatoes au gratin, lettuce and grapefruit salad, ice cream, demitasse. Well-fed-a few grumbled because there was no liquor-they listened to Lobbyist Jack's proposition...