Word: auk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...just to see what the city would "look like to a fish." He took up painting, wrote slick fiction with Arthur Train ( The Moon-Maker; The Man Who Rocked the Earth), produced a book of verse and sketches called How to Tell the Birds from the Flowers ("The awkward Auk is only known/To dwellers in the Auk-tic zone . . ."). He also became a successful sleuth. He helped police reconstruct the bomb used in the Wall Street bombing of 1920 and, after some laboratory work, led them to the man who blew up young Naomi Hall in the notorious Candy...
...igloo nearby and settled down with his family for a sleep-only to be awakened shortly afterward by an uninvited anthropologist. While the "lemming-faced" white intruder busily sketched everything in sight, hospitable Ernenek brought out his choicest delicacy, "a thoroughly chewed hodgepodge of caribou eyes, ptarmigan dung, auk slime and fermented bear brain," which the visitor rudely refused. Then wife Asiak had a happy idea: "Maybe he is not hungry. Maybe he just wants to laugh with a worthless woman." Beamed Ernenek: "Make yourself beautiful...