Word: castor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...learn anything from examinations. Those who don't work cram in the last minute and exhale their knowledge in a heavy sigh after the ordeal is over. Ergo; it can't be the students who gain anything from examinations. They just take and excrete them like castor...
...politicians entirely by instinct, perhaps because his mother had attended a nominating convention just three months before his birth. And he was afraid of saviors of youth, because he knew by experience that as soon as anyone started talking about saving youth, it always meant something unpleasant like castor oil. And anyway, Vag was sure that the main thing youth had to be saved from was people who'd grown old so soon that they'd never had time to find out what it was like to be young...