Word: elephantic
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
When King Bhumibol Adulyadej last week celebrated his 36th birthday - a particularly significant anniversary to Thais, who measure life in twelve-year cycles - traditionalists were saddened not to find a single royal elephant taking part in the elaborate ceremonies. In Thailand, as elsewhere in Asia, the once enormous importance of...
For U.S. feed grain dealers and elevator operators, the wheat cannot move fast enough. Bumper harvests have gorged Midwestern elevators, and millions of bushels of corn and sorghum have just been dumped on the ground. In Hannibal, Mo., the corn is higher than an elephant's eye. Smack in...
Coach Bill Burnham's Elephant squad was paced by quarterback Elliot Topkins, who tossed two touchdown passes to end Jelf Lambert. The other Elephant score came on a 17-yard dash by senior fullback Bob Yager. Topkins and Eliot co-captain Pete Wood buttressed the winners' defense. Eliot was threatened...
But all the Elephant heroics would have been in vain, had the Quincy eleven not pulled the upset of the season against Kirkland. The win was Quincy's first, and shattered Kirkland's hopes for the league title, barring an unlikely Dudley win over Eliot next week in the Elephants...
"In Xanadu did Kubla Khan"-At his best, Updike is able to slip unobtrusively out of light verse into something more barbed. The Encyclopaedia Britannica tells him that, except for the elephant and the giraffe, man holds his heart higher above the ground than any other animal: