Word: tailes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lion's Roar. Then it happened. Prince, the tiger, got nervous, began whipping his tail. It flicked against Tyrone and the big lion turned, rose, roared and lashed out with his paw. The tiger snarled, lashed back, lost his balance and fell. Tyrone was on him like a load of coal. The second tiger jumped Tyrone. Then every lion in the cage came down. In 15 seconds the air was trembling with the kind of noise you hear when a bomber's engines are run up full. Big cats crouched, sprang, rolled, roared all over the ground...
...prairies whitened, scores of thousands of chunky Hereford cattle turned tail to the storm, lowered their heads, and began to drift disconsolately before it. When they came to fences they turned, followed the wire. But some time during the second night, when the snow was belly deep on the flats and higher than a rider's head in the drifts, they stopped. When the storm ceased and the cold intensified, herd after herd stood wearily with their breaths steaming, waiting patiently for death...
...grocery clerk. He made his bullfighting debut as a novillero (apprentice) last August. Said the dean of Mexico City's bullfight critics, "Here is the novillero of the season-of all seasons." After his first kill, the crowds shouted that he should be given both ears and the tail-the highest mark of approval...
...plane can carry two passengers (and 50 pounds of baggage) 400 miles at 120 miles an hour. With propeller, wings and tail removed (a simple job for one man), it becomes a four-wheeled auto. Price, if & when Fulton's Continental Inc. gets into commercial production: between...
Great Britain's labor government got out of the rubber business last week, thankful that it had lost only the tail of its shirt. After five years of state buying & selling, it declared that the market in rubber would be free: trading will begin next week, private buyers will import crude rubber beginning...