Word: ducks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...such split-second cooling, Luyet and his associates built a kind of miniature ducking stool. With it they suspend bits of animal tissue and plant leaves over a container of liquid nitrogen kept at -320° F. One brief duck, and the cooling process is complete. Muscle tissue from the hearts of chick embryos has been successfully frozen by the clucking stool and later brought to life...
...musk ox is a hard animal to describe-it looks somewhat like a cross between a buffalo and an English sheep dog, has downward-curving horns and a morose expression. It is even harder to know. Though it once roamed as far south as Kentucky, it never learned to duck when hunters began shooting; now all but extinct, the musk ox lives on the fringe of the Arctic, where it munches lichen and other inferior fodder, and apparently spends a great deal of time watching it snow...
...cries the hawksman as he sends his bird aloft. Some such command rang through the woodlands of Assyria 3,000 years ago, and carried down the Middle Ages. Every king had his eagles, every earl his peregrines, and even a knave might fly a kestrel. They brought pigeon and duck to the table, and sport to the afternoon...
...glanced in the back of the library book and noted that it was already three weeks overdue. "Might be a good idea to slip it into the night slot at Lamont and see if I can duck the fine," he mused. "Definitely a shrewd maneuver...
...Overture, 1812, cannon (or cannon sound effects) have been booming forth for 70 years. In Rochester last week, the gunfire brought down some trophies. As the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra reached the firing point, and cannon roared offstage, the audience in Eastman Theater was astonished to see a cloud of duck feathers float down from the ceiling. The orchestra people hastened to explain that it was no part of the program. Their best guess: "Pranksters who knew music and the catwalks...