Word: eels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...girl dressed in their parents' clothes, take a mock-adult trip to Paris. The author's gentle wit consists in creating a mildly inappropriate setting for the appropriate French phrase. The little girl falls into a fountain under a spouting marble fish. Caption, "Il pleut, Monsieur (eel pluh muh-seyuh)," means "It is raining, sir." Irene Haas's line drawings superbly evoke a tourist's Paris. A book for the household that thought it had everything when it bought Winnie Ille...
Handicappers & Treasure Hunters. The library can tell a harried mother what to feed her daughter's new pet eel, or help wives to trace runaway husbands and illegitimate sons to find their fathers. FBI agents constantly thumb the library's foreign and domestic phone directories from 2,700 cities, and many a barroom argument is settled with a quick call to the sober Information Division. About the only thing that ever flustered the library was New York's rage a few years ago over the Herald Tribune's "Tangle Town" puzzle contests. To stem brawls...
...liked to sneak up behind a cow, take a snap at her tail and sit grinning as she furiously kicked up her heels. He also displayed a peculiar passion for nipping every ear lobe that came within his appallingly elastic range. And once, when Maxwell tried to take an eel away from him, Mij effortlessly bit clean through his hand. "He let go almost in the same instant and rolled on his back squirming with apology...
When the time came for the real test last week, Polaris and her crew were ready. The SINS had the ship exactly on station. The control surfaces that could whip George Washington through the water like a startled eel now held it steady and motionless. On signal, the muzzle door atop a missile tube swung open. A small, explosive charge ruptured the plastic membrane that protected the bird from sea water, and a great blast of compressed air sent it rocketing toward the surface and its remarkable flight...
Citation: "You are described as a life-long allegro, a nest of atoms in a cyclotron, a leaky electric eel, a Mickey Mantle of music (three years ago, that was), a human gyroscope, Presley of the podium, our musical Dick Tracy...