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...pulsating place with a rich but brief past in a singularly unpredictable life expectancy. It is the last true colony of size and importance in all Asia, and it perches in incongruous complacency on the coast of Communist China like a fat canary on the shoulder of a hungry tomcat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hong Kong: Main Door to Communist China: A remarkably unfrightened place | 1/16/1956 | See Source »

...their neat little thoughts against such a monster issue. The undergraduate who investigates the subject is more often than not groping in the dark. If you're feeling ontological, you can go to the library and find lots of company. But if you feel like a big black tomcat at dusk, all you can do is yowl...

Author: By David Royce, | Title: Sex and Society: Coming of Age at Harvard | 10/8/1955 | See Source »

...Manx cats are not ordinary cats. They are not even hybrids between cats and rabbits, as some Manxmen believe. According to Zoologist Frederick Zeuner of London, they are genetic freaks: "mutations with a tailless characteristic apparently linked with high-leggedness." The type probably originated when one tailless, mutant tomcat managed to impress his character on a large number of descendants. The name of this Adam torn is not known, or even whether he operated in the Isle of Man, but ever since his time, cat breeders interested in taillessness have been frustrated by the capriciousness of his divergent genes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Rumples & Stumpies | 5/18/1953 | See Source »

...fine mornings, so the Times says, the parrot can be seen walking about the lawns, slanging songbirds, nipping a blade of grass. Nobody worries about cats: to scare them off, he yowls like a fighting tomcat. If that fails, he barks like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Psittacine Performer | 9/1/1952 | See Source »

...Tomcat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NATIONAL AFFAIRS,WAR IN ASIA,INTERNATIONAL & FOREIGN,PEOPLE,OTHER EVENTS: The President & Congress | 10/29/1951 | See Source »

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