Word: tail
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...already begun and that their world might be sacrificed to it, and tried to understand what might have to be done. Russia-apparently in all U.S. minds-was the real villain, the real and terrible foe. Said Detroit Salesman Zacharias Cosmas: "Hit the main Bolsheviks. The tail won't bite if you hit the head." Said New Orleans Policeman Ernest F. Curtis: "We should declare war on Russia officially and then drop all the A-bombs we can on her." But most people didn't talk that...
...like Hirsch's Nine Men, was a standout at last year's Carnegie exhibition and also at the Met. Andrew Wyeth, generally the realest of the young realists, sent a vapid study of a curiously costumed boy on a bicycle adorned with a red, white & blue racoon tail. He called it Young America. Philip Evergood, who is as much concerned with social propaganda as he is with exercising his prodigious talent, showed a grim glance at Harlem entitled Sunny Side of the Street. It was cluttered as all get-out, but as usual with Evergood, every detail...
...always the same type of injury or shock. In fact, said Dr. Ingalls, the trouble with researchers who have been looking for a single, simple cause is that they were like the three blind men describing an elephant: one found it all foot, another all trunk, the third all tail...
...hounds flushed, chased and gave tongue after seven red foxes, with the 14 judges galloping hell-for-leather after them. After eight hours of deliberation, consultation and comparing of notes, the judges awarded both top contenders 200 points-then for superior hunting ability they gave the championship nod to tail-wagging, tongue-lolling Meggs White Girl...
Last summer, to get the animals they needed, the research advocates drew up a proposition for the ballot. Against them were the usual animal defense crews and such outfits as the Mercy Crusade, Tail-waggers' Foundations and Animal Allies. Fake pictures of torture of animals were stuffed under doors. Grisly tales were circulated that doctors, not content with canine victims, were mangling babies. Handouts denounced medical researchers as fiends, ghouls, sadists, murderers...