Word: hind
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...painting Midnight Ride of Paul Revere in your March 1 issue, you say ". . . it lacks every grace save precision and is as meticulous in execution as a Flemish altarpiece." Perhaps, but no horse . . . ever galloped with his two front legs stretched out in front and his two hind legs extending to the rear...
...authorities have ordered all pet dogs and cats inoculated, all strays destroyed. Not unduly upset by the fact that 313 Chicagoans were bitten in four days last week, Antivivisectionist Castle (long egged on by the Hearst press), wanted pet owners to know that anti-rabies shots "would paralyze the hind legs of dogs." Though claiming to be no "damn fool," Irene, who in more than 25 years of running animal shelters has prided herself on an average of three bites a week, blithely offered to let any old mad dog bite her and to "put up $5,000 that...
...Britain approved the White-Morgenthau plan. When the agreements were being initialed, F.D.R. suggested that Churchill initial the German one first and then an economic agreement that would lead to an additional loan to Great Britain. Asked Churchill: "What do you want me to do? Get on my hind legs and beg like Fala...
...conviction, namely, that every and any conviction is always subject to change without notice. As pure intellectual exercise, this hypothetical school of political science is entirely defensible. For the sake of pure political hypothesis, it makes little difference whether man is a creature of God or the hind end of a happenstance. But for the sake of American freedom in its life or death struggle with Communism, it makes all the difference in the world. For it so happens that the foundational, supporting concepts of the structure of American freedom are very deeply and dogmatically laid...
...Isle of Man Manx Cat Association sees no better solution than the traditional method used for generations in the Manx cat business. It urges farmers in the Isle of Man to get a genuine rumpy torn (long hind legs and a dimple where his tail should be) and give him the run of a farmyard stocked with a dozen ordinary female cats. Some of his produce will be ordinary cats; some will be sad little stumpies, but others will be rumples, worth ten guineas ($29.40) when shipped to Manx cat lovers...