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Although the men could take it, some of the machines could not. The'so-called all-weather fighter planes - U.S. F-80s and Canadian Vampires-functioned well enough mechanically but were frequently grounded by Arctic snow flurries and overcast. The U.S. Army's snow vehicle, the Weasel, was a dismaying failure; of 100 brand-new Weasels put into action, nearly half broke down in the first five days. The Canadian Army's counterpart, the Penguin, stood up better but was too bulky to maneuver among the pines off the road. Before Sweetbriar was half over, observers were...
...chances to get away to the irrigation spillways to cast for bass, or onto the prairie to hunt for quail, or to the hills for antelope. Grinning, he sees a connection between last winter's blizzards (when he had to make farm calls by horse team or "weasel" tractor) and the heavy obstetrical practice in the last weeks of 1949: "The blizzards kept most people home, and we're just reaping the benefits...
Died. Frederick Porter ("the Weasel") Wensley, 84, beak-nosed master sleuth, onetime head of Scotland Yard's famed C.I.D. (Criminal Investigation Department), who solved many of Britain's most famous crimes during his long (1887-1929) service; in London. No theorizing Hercule Poirot, Wensley served a rough & tumble apprenticeship in London's thug-infested East End during the Jack the Ripper era, wrote about it all in Forty Years of Scotland Yard...
...Weasel words had burrowed into the syntax of this passage, but the implication was clear. A further statement from the Central Committee made it clearer: "The people of France place themselves resolutely, and in all circumstances, in the camp of the Soviet Union and her heroic army...
...most, America sounded un-Blochian: a muddied mixture of Indian tom-toms, Pop! Goes the Weasel, anvils (the industrial age), automobile horns and telephone bells, with his main theme bobbing up here & there. When the grand finale finally came, the audience rose to its feet and roared out the anthem-2,300 voices plus a full orchestra and a booming pipe organ...