Word: elephantic
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Small equestrian figures are prevalent in village shrines, in part because of the horse's aristocratic connotations and in part for his mystical significance: his fleet hoofs are believed to bear riders safely to the spirit world. The cat is held in reverence by the Bengalis of Calcutta because...
With the experts and the figures so unequivocally in agreement, why is it that neither Congress nor the Administration can harmonize? "It's like a bunch of people walking around in high elephant grass," says one Treasury official. They were in brief sight of one another last month at...
The elephant grass was thicker than anyone had imagined. After this month's riots, Johnson felt that urban and poverty programs would have to be expanded rather than cut. Though he also vetoed any major troop increase for Viet Nam, he did approve increments that would push war spending...
Though South Viet Nam commands the headlines, it is not the only country that the North Vietnamese have invaded in force. Neighboring Laos shares that unhappy distinction, despite the fact that, under the Geneva accords of 1962, no foreign forces are permitted in the neutralist Elephant Kingdom of 3,000...
It was Dr. Goy's 14th transplant and the first to be performed on an Ibis. To date, none of Dr. Goy's patients has survived, although optimism focused briefly on his daring attempt to transplant 312 canary hearts into a dying elephant. "For a while Bethesda seemed to be...