Word: critter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thing about Suckerman, the clinging vinyl critter, is that he doesn't stick. Don't believe the box. He simply doesn't grip most surfaces. Despite the suction cups that bulge from his body, he makes but the feeblest attempt to cling to the wall of the Jordan Marsh toy department, bouncing off again and again with his shallow vinyl grin intact...
...adopted a resolution praising the hairdo of a female legislator, but the house turned aside a proposal to decree ricotta the State Cheese. In Florida, the legislature recently indulged in boisterous repartee over a measure that would have made it a crime to molest the "skunk ape," a mythical critter occasionally sighted around the state that is said to stand 7 ft. tall, weigh 700 lbs. and smell like swamp...
Three years of control efforts, including massive poisoning, made no headway against the frogs. The only chance left, says James St. Amant, supervisor of the state department of fish and game, is to find "a critter that'll feed on them." That may be difficult since the frog's skin apparently contains a toxic venom and tastes awful. Even an alligator passed up a dish of clawed frogs-legs...
However, we must congratulate Mr. Savit, who incidentally was seen cavorting with a recently deceased and rapidly decomposing barnyard critter (the mainstay of our milk industry), for his precise spelling and immaginative use of punctuation; and metaphor...
...example, 78,000 residents took part in a three-phase litter pickup project that collected 500 tons of trash. The basic theme is pounded home by posters demanding ZERO LITTER, bumper stickers reading LITTER is NO ACCIDENT and even T shirts urging Washingtonians to STOP THE LITTER CRITTER...