Word: barked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...minute, forgetting the names of callers, snapping at people. Soon she was eased out of formal duties-but not off the payroll. After that, her contacts with the office were mostly private phone calls to Hays; they were wild, frequent, and insulting to the staff. Typically, she would bark: "Let me talk to him!" The staff knew that the calls were to get the same priority as calls from Henry Kissinger...
Economists these days are applying a kind of Sherlock Holmes logic to the strange case of interest rates. Like the watchdog who did not bark (thus signifying to Holmes that the crime he was investigating must have been an inside job, perpetrated by someone the dog knew), loan charges have been doing the opposite of what might be expected. They have been lying low throughout a period when all past experience indicates they should have been rising. Like Holmes, economists think that this curious behavior must provide an important clue-in this case to what is really happening...
...Bark and Catfish Skin. Japanese swords have virtually no parallels in Western art. Only one shape in our cul ture seems to rhyme with the strict parabolas of a tachi's profile: Brancusi's Bird in Flight, with its soaring curvature, immaculate surface and absolute finality of line. The resemblance is not merely formal. Just as the abstract contour of the Bird is rich with allusions to nature, so the blade contains landscapes...
...terms that describe the ji-hada or patterns left on the steel by repeated folding and hammering-pine tree bark, catfish skin, straight grain and sugu-ut-suri, "a straight misty line of cloud"-are all derived from nature...
Whether they hail from the land of beets and borscht, knockwurst and Heineken, bark and betel nuts, or milk and honey, there is one issue on which foreign students at Harvard unanimously and vociferously agree: American food is greasy, bland and tasteless...