Word: weaseled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dreamed up the "weasel," the tracked, amphibious jeep that wallowed through mud from Italy to the Pacific. Pyke first wanted his weasels built to jump sideways so they could avoid dive bombers. His plan to combat U-boats in the North Atlantic burgeoned into the Habakkuk Project.* It called for a fleet of 2,000-ft. iceberg aircraft carriers built of Pykrete (40-foot-thick ice blocks reinforced with wood pulp). This idea fascinated Winston Churchill; a working model was laboriously constructed in Canada's Lake Patricia, but the project was abandoned as Allied successes against U-boats ended...
...Weasel will play...
Right now the Laffmovie is showing among other delicacies, a cartoon about a sneezing weasel and a Buster Keaton classic, vintage 1934. The former does, however, contain some modern verse. There are two lines...
This behind-bars art boom was started by 20 young proletarian artists, who call themselves "the Wedge." The group is dedicated to teaching painting to people who otherwise would not know an easel from a weasel. Formed six years ago-when most of its members were still art students-the Wedgies have inspired some 600 proselytes (in & out of jail). Bricklayers, factory workers and carpenters by day, Wedge members invade the prisons at night, with armloads of free paint and canvas. For their work in provincial jails and small villages, the art missionaries dip into the group kitty, which...
Last week, after a slight sag, the industrials broke through again, rising to a new 1947 high of 186.85. Once more, the rails failed to follow the breakthrough. To the strict Dow theorists, it was still a bear market, though some were trying to weasel through a semantic loophole: the so-called bear market might be only a large scale reaction in the wartime bull market...