Word: elephantic
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9) CHIEF OF PROTOCOL, welcoming Somali's Prime Minister Abdirascid Ali Scermarche, who arrived on a visit and brought a few unusual gifts-an ostrich-egg lamp, a foot-high, bottom-weighted "Devil Doll'' that teeters but never falls over, a monkey-fur rug, and a brass...
Never Too Late, by Sumner Arthur Long. There's a Ford in many a playgoer's future-Paul Ford. Ford looks rather like an elephant that has had its trunk bobbed.
The Vizier's Elephant and Devil's Yard, by Ivo Andric. In four short novels a Yugoslav Nobel prizewinner treats with some new and old varieties of human tyranny.
In the old days, once a biographer-critic got on top of a really big writing name he was likely to stay there for a lifetime. But today, scholarly competition is cutthroat, and the great writers of the past are likely to be swarmed over as an elephant carcass is...
"They had the beef; they had everything," a Saybrook College player moaned after yesterday's Harvard-Yale intramural championship game. The "Beef" was Eliot House's mammoth forward wall; the "everything" was primarily Elephant backs Pete Wood and Andy Shea, whose spectacular play paced Eliot to a 21-0 victory...