Word: amphibianism
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...bulldozer, the Jeep, the 2½-ton truck and the amphibian duck...
...Vocal Amphibian. Nilsson admits to 56 years now. She had not sung Sieglinde, the mortal woman caught in the murderous shenanigans of the gods, since 1957, simply because even the most slow-witted impresario knows that casting her as Sieglinde is like taking a great passer and putting him on defense. Nilsson is the supernatural warrior Brunnhilde...
There were unnecessary doubts that she could "go back" to Sieglinde's gentler music. Like some fabulous Ring character, Nilsson is a kind of vocal amphibian who can exist in both past and present. At times there was an eerie suggestion that one was hearing the young Nilsson. In the famous first-act duet with Siegmund (Jon Vickers), she was translucid as a lover, exalted on learning that he is also her lost twin. Nilsson never makes a meaningless gesture. She touched Siegmund almost at once-tentative, exploring-like an emotionally blinded woman. After the first act there...
...last month they turned up in two other places in Australia and promptly set off an all out toad hunt. When 18 Bufos escaped from a consignment to a biology teacher at steamy Darwin, in the Northern Territory, it was immediately clear that not all Australians regard the amphibian gourmands with the equanimity of Queenslanders, who have grown used to skidding in their cars along toad-covered roads. The cane toad, said one member of the Northern Territory Legislative Council, is "loathsome and repulsive," and the council rushed through a bill anathematizing it as "an outlaw ... a pest...
Romer's research in vertebrate paleontology took him from South Africa to western Argentina to the Permian red-beds of Texas in search of amphibian and reptile fossils...