Word: canard
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...waggish ghost) ground out some profound pap. Of men and their sex drive: "[A man] is like a small boy in a restaurant. Can only eat a little bit, but wants the whole menu. He cries if somebody else eat a little too. But if nobody wishes canard sauce bigarrade, he don't wish either. Can be starving, still no canard sauce bigarrade," Sophia's advice to American girls: "Everything I've got I got from eating spaghetti...
...Cuban fisherman a new boat in exchange for the old man's own true sea stories, from which Papa then drew his famed novelette, The Old Man and the Sea. With callous ingratitude, he had never even thanked his pitiful source of such profitable material. When the ugly canard, headed "Old Miguel and Hemingway's Word," hit Page One of Havana's big (circ. 52,000) morning daily, Excelsior, it bloomed too close to home. Thoroughly enraged, Hemingway went to the Warner Bros, unit now filming The Old Man in Cuba, borrowed a tape-recorder...
...aftermath of war, when allies are no longer in arms against the common peril, there arises the unpleasant problem of which ally must pay the other for services rendered. After World War I. the canard spread that France had even collected rent for the use of trenches on its soil. Last week South Korea's President Syngman Rhee went just as far, if not much farther, in a bill for $684,600,000 that he sent to the U.N. Command, i.e., to the U.S.. which foots almost all the bills...
...spite of these distinguished scholars, the U.S. academic world still tends to look askance at its glittering Cinderella. For some reason, the canard persists that should midnight ever strike, the whole place would turn out to be a pumpkin after all. Yet, by any standard, Duke has gone far in its brief 30 years, and perhaps its greatest asset is the fact that it is so fully conscious of how far it has still to go. Slowly but surely, says President Edens, "we are developing an attitude of excellence." Given that ambition, Duke has but one major...
Although the builders of the first Leviathan got their name for a craft from Canard's newly-launched luxury liner of the same name, its origin is actually in the Book of Job, Chapter 41. In its Biblical cantext, Leviathan means whale or large fish...