Word: owl
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...sentry yawned, started at the sound of a hoot owl, relaxed and rubbed his eyes...
This was not Tunisia, but Fort Knox, Ky. Raiders were the Nazi Platoon-30 German-speaking, noncommissioned Armored Forcemen who prey on trainees out on long marches and overnight maneuvers. Faces blackened, signaling among themselves by owl hoots, the raiders fire blanks, use whistle bombs. The platoon averages five day or night raids a week. It specializes in mess sergeants (thereby canceling dinner) and tired stragglers...
...also-should anyone take particular notice of smoke billowing from the Navy Office, please be assured that the Yeomen therein are not on fire. It is only due to the newly arrived son of Lt. (jg) Kauder who must have been sent with the compliments of the White Owl Cigar Co., judging from the happy father's generous output...
...gamy Memphis another clean-up campaign was in full swing, and as usual owl-eyed, benign Boss Ed Crump, 67, was the prime cudgel-wielder. This time he was after the cats. Memphis songbirds were in peril, said the boss, so cats must go. A "nice house cat" was all right, but tramps of either sex were out. Promptly cattraps began to appear in Memphis back yards, particularly those of county and city employes. County Commissioner Francis Andrews trapped three right...
...neutral: he was against the Japs, against the Axis. After ten wartime months in Japan, he left for the U.S., sorrowfully convinced that his own country was "the eyes and ears of the Japanese Government in the Western Hemisphere." He quit his job, is working temporarily with OWL Last week in Manhattan he told a story which can help the U.S. to know its unknown enemy. He said...