Word: constrictors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Honolulu last week, George McMillen, of Los Angeles, paused briefly on a junket to China. Among other assignments, McMillen would enter a Philippine jungle, shouting for Chloe. If she failed to answer, he was to bring home a boa constrictor. McMillen is a contest loser. He missed a $2,000 prize on NBC's Truth or Consequences. The consequence: his trip, paid for jointly by the radio show and Robert ("Believe It or Not") Ripley...
Ubico used plenty of violence. His police and soldiers ranged the capital, threatening, killing. But the strike did not lose force. Day by day, like a fangless constrictor, it tightened its coils around the encircled tyrant...
Saint-Exupéry begins by saying that when he was six he drew a picture of a boa constrictor in the act of swallowing an elephant. Says lie: "I showed my masterpiece to the grownups, and asked them whether the drawing frightened them...
...drawing was not a picture of a hat. . . . But since the grownups were not able to understand it, I made another drawing: I drew the inside of the boa constrictor, so that the grownups could see it clearly. They always need to have things explained...
Optimism. General Sir Archibald Wavell reported on his recent inspection trip to Assam and Bengal, the northeastern provinces where a Japanese invasion is threatened when the monsoon rains end in mid-October. Optimist Wavell compared Japan to a boa constrictor which has swallowed a goat and has to have time to digest it. He spoke of retaking Burma. Wavell's optimism may have been regarded by some as a military boost to the United Nations. But there was no cause for optimism in a political situation that, unless remedied, will endanger the United Nations' dealing with Asia...