Word: coldbloodedness
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Hill Glee. For almost any other Congressman, such an emotional admission would have yielded a measure of forgiveness. But the acidulous Hays is the kind of sinner who has been casting stones at others throughout his 28-year career in Congress. He put it well himself, almost boasting to the...
Dinosaurs are generally regarded as overgrown lizards-pea-brained, coldblooded creatures that spent most of their lives hulking sluggishly in the sun. This image is unfair, argues Adrian Des mond, 28, an English-born doctoral candidate at Harvard University. Desmond, who studied vertebrate paleontology at London University, has spent the...
In the Cold. Desmond bases his argument on a comparison of dinosaurs and modern-day reptiles like the lizard. Cold-blooded animals, whose bodies are small by comparison with most mammals, control their body temperatures by moving into or out of the sun. If dinosaurs were coldblooded, maintains Desmond, they...
From the very beginning, the appeal of the fin was irresistible. The very word angling derives from the ancient Greek onkos, or barbed hook. Circa 200 B.C., Cato the Elder (manifestly a non-angler) was astonished by tales of "a city where fish sold for more than an ox." (To...
Resign Demands. William Loeb, the ultra-conservative publisher of the Manchester (N.H.) Union Leader, joined the growing although still small group of those demanding that Nixon resign. "Looking at it from a perfectly coldblooded, hardheaded standpoint," Loeb wrote, "Mr. Nixon has destroyed his credibility and his support, not just with...