Word: cats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most colorful war correspondents in Asia today is TIME'S Teddy White. He has short legs, a freckled face, a cocky walk, an indomitable spirit, a compassion for suffering people and a curiosity which would cost a cat all nine of its lives in no time. And this week, when the Chinese victory along the Yangtze looms so important in the news, perhaps you would like me to tell you something more about the man who is covering that story...
...pointer, Sandy, who stood with nose and tail extended and one forefoot raised for four hours. In Atlantic City, Clifford H. Lee got his German shepherd back from Dogs for Defense, which had given up trying to make Fritz bite the enemy. In Chicago, Joseph Bosnyak, whose wife liked cats, got a divorce after he had testified: "I ate with cats. I slept with cats. ... It was nothing for me to wake up ... and find a cat's tail around my neck...
...pineapple cannery." They used it first as a base, then, as the Japs drew closer, as a place to load bombs and gas on missions flown from Australia, "touching it as lightly as you would a hot stove." They flew 18 hours a day, with minutes of cat naps in between, until they were sent down to Java...
...knocked flat. And the announcement came, fittingly enough, from the lips of pious-faced Bill Green, whom Lewis originally made president of A.F. of L., and later denounced as a "faithless ingrate" (and many other things). Summoning reporters to his office, Bill Green took quiet revenge, smugly smiled a "cat-ate-the-canary" smile, stated that his executive committee was sympathetically considering the application...
...seems likely, the Mine Workers return to the A.F. of L. fold, John Lewis will be the cat, Green the canary. Further, A.F. of L. will immediately become the predominant labor bloc in the country, with a membership approaching 7,000,000 as against C.I.O.'s 5,000,000. And finally, John Lewis will have boosted himself into a new strategic position to play politics (and probably bitter isolationist politics) in the election...