Word: aspic
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...which the West stands. In the face of this mounting opposition, some of the permanent white populations have reacted strongly. They have, in effect, set a ne plus ultra to the march of their black peoples. They have tried to preserve their status in a sort of old imperial aspic. Their fears are human and easily understood; they have resulted in laws and arrangements that seem unjust to strangers...
...loomed the formidable figure of Mrs. Purdy, president of the Tuesday Club of Pottawattamie, Ind. It was she who had persuaded the colonel to organize a Woman's League for Democratic Action among the Okinawan ladies, and to suggest model menus for the league's meetings (chicken aspic and salmon loaf garnished with water cress, fruit compote and other delicacies...
Moanin' Low was written especially for a lawyer's daughter from Cincinnati named Elsbeth Holman. Singing it in a throaty voice that could turn the male will to quivering aspic, Libby Holman captured Broadway when she was only 26. It was a strangely prophetic song...
Many a moa perished in the ooze, which eventually got to be the consistency of jelly. This year, New Zealand scientists have dug up 57 moa skeletons from the gelatinous mass. One newsman referred to "Moas in aspic...
...alone in their death agony. A giant woodhen (Aptornis) and a goose (Cnemiornis), half again as big as a barnyard goose, were also bogged down. Nor was the slime their only foe. As they struggled, huge eagles (Harpagornis) swooped down and tried to pick some meat from the enveloping "aspic." Some of the eagles became mired too, and left their remains (bigger than the great monkey-eating eagle of the Philippines) in Pyramid Valley's death trap...