Word: clams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...inside out. The concept must be biological, not static. A beautiful seashell is not a façade; it is a shell. This is the essence of architecture." This left Harvard wondering whether it was getting a structure as beautiful as a conch or as homely as a clam. But as it would be his only showpiece in the U.S., Corbu could be counted on to make it impressive...
Twombley's boatyard in South Yarmouth, Me. is redolent of clam flats and hot tar, rife with the cries of greedy gulls and little children. At dockside, where scores of boat owners are polishing, scraping and painting, a World War II veteran, paralyzed from the waist down, rolls up to his 32-ft. cruiser in his wheelchair, pulls himself aboard, finds his screwdriver and gets to work...
...Kelly, having weathered a New York ticker-tape parade and the Washington ceremonial circuit, including St. Patrick's Day at the White House, was bounding about Chicago like a leathery leprechaun. Proving himself of noble stuff, he managed to down such items as green rice, green clam chowder and green cookies without turning green himself. Steadfastly refusing to discuss political issues, he was nonetheless proud of his calling: "I have been a politician all my life. There is no nobler profession-except perhaps that of the church." Bussing and blarneying almost every woman in sight...
...geneticists now believe, lies the high command of growth and reproduction. Double-helix DNA molecules, thousands of turns long and arranged by thousands in each chromosome, can carry a vast amount of coded information. They may very likely carry enough to determine whether a fertilized egg grows into a clam or an elephant. When chromosomes replicate during cell division, the DNA molecules that they contain presumably replicate...
...Clam & Dromedary. Where screening fails, footnotes are added: the reader learns that a clam is "a shellfish similar to an oyster," and a prophet is "one who foresees events." Globe's editors seem to have taken great care to snip out words that might enlarge children's minds-even the slow-learning children at whom such books are aimed. In the cut-down version of one novel, the not-too-difficult word dromedary is thrown out for the easier camel-sparing young readers the trouble of adding a new name to the beasts in their mental menageries...