Word: tora
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hopeless as that, though many Greeks felt the way the captain did. The Greek Army, on its part, was learning the phrase which Major Ehrgott and the other Americans liked to use: "Oxi avrio-tora!" (Not tomorrow-now!). The Americans were learning, well before the spring thaws opened up the whole north Greece guerrilla country, that the military solution to the Andartes would involve more than night patrols...
...schoolchildren wrote to the zoo keepers to say that the slaughter of their animals constituted "unbearable acts of indignity." To console them, the keepers had the beasts stuffed and reinstalled in their cages or in glass showcases. In death as in life the zoo's star attraction was Tora San, the huge tiger. Propped up before a painted backdrop of lush green jungle, his bared fangs sent many a moppet scurrying closer to his mother's kimono...
...Recently Tora San suffered another act of indignity. Thieves broke into his cage, stripped off his skin from tail to ears. Tokyo's police thought that the remains of Tora San were well on their way to becoming tiger-skin wallets. Last week police found a tiger's head, placed it in Tora San's cage. But keepers and children (who know their tigers) indignantly insisted that the new head was not Tora San's. This one had been ripped off somebody...