Word: croaking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hopping holiday to the mountains of Transylvania. The mountain forests were aswarm with wolves and wildcats, so the mother frog warned her children to keep quiet. Her youngest son defiantly boasted, "I am proud to be a frog, and it is in the nature of a frog to croak." He hopped off one day to the bank of a pond and croaked so loudly and so long that a mountain goat spotted him and killed him. "I told him not to croak," the mother frog mourned. "Do not scold your dead son," said the father. "He had the courage...
What a charming spot for a renaissance of old values. There are little green islands on the lake. An elegant white house sits at the base of a rock cliff on the western shore. In the evening, frogs croak, crickets chirp, and the freight trains of the Canadian National Railway clatter by on the way to Montreal, the loonlike hoot of the locomotive echoing in the woods as if rushing back in time...
...twister. Every line in her Method-y delivery proclaims, "I've been through analysis," making her an aural, if not visual anachronism. (This is an era when Freud was still playing with little boys.) Keaton can't convey intellect the way Maureen Stapleton, in fine full figure and sturdy croak...
...meanings that the Bible lays upon the word Word are not embraced by everyone. Yet nobody can reasonably doubt that the coming of the word, if not the Word, to humankind was the start of something big in history. Human talk may have struck dyspeptic Nathaniel Hawthorne like "the croak and cackle of fowls," but the rise of language, written and spoken, is all but universally rated as one of the glories of the species. What is surprising is that in the common give and take of daily living people still rely so little upon the verbal language that distinguishes...
...native who moved to the Imperial Valley in the 1930s for his health, vowed to continue his crusade against what he calls "feudal empires." Said he: "It has cost me about $60,000, but I'm going to keep at it until I run out of money or croak." He will have to battle more than the Supreme Court. The Senate has approved a total exemption for the valley, and the House is expected to follow suit. The Senate bill would multiply by eight (to 1,280 acres) the ceiling that applies to the other 11 million acres...