pigmy

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Like some pigmy umpire nervously staging a handshake between quarrelsome giants, small Norway last week brought Imperial Britain and Communist Russia into their first diplomatic contact in more than two years.

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Over Heidelberg, she cast her shadow on pigmy castles and at Stuttgart solemnly circled the grave of Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin.

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In the fall the team will practice on the 90 pigmy gridirons, giving them all the same rough treatment.

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As company for their wards, they invited lion-tailed macaques, yellow-breasted laughing thrushes, orange-bellied fruit doves and Indian pigmy geese.

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"Mr. Beach, let me go down and drive him away,—I can do it," implores Beekman, the pigmy Gothamite.

From From School to Battle-field A Story of the War Days by King, Charles