Word: elephantic
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In 1954, after Stalin's death, when "somebody named Khrushchev" beckoned Togliatti and other Red leaders to a secret meeting of the Cominform in Prague, Togliatti refused to go, sent a deputy instead. How much further this disdain went was described last week in the magazine Azione Comunista, by...
Aside from the immediate influence of his works on the field of letters, Kitteredge helped bring the public to think of scholarship as respectable endeavor, more than a pedant's ocupation. When it was remarked that Widener was "an elephant" among buildings in the yard, he countered, "What if it...
The dye is finally cast against him by I. G. Farben itself. At the last minute Bill tries to diversify. He fills an order for 43 plastic bathtubs made out of Volupton ("It feels like folks") for an Indian ma-harajah's palace. Poor Bill's maharajah turns...
Perched high above the jungle grass aboard an elephant, U.S. Ambassador to India Ellsworth Bunker took five quick shots at a moving target, neatly bagged his first quarry: a prince-sized (12 ft. 10 in. long, 5 ft. 9 in. high at the shoulder) Indian bull bison. Warily clutching his...
On the surface, the book (its setting is French Equatorial Africa) tells the adventures of a dentist named Morel who becomes obsessed with the notion of protecting wild fauna from hunters. But Novelist Gary is really concerned with "another animal who needed protection"-man. Elephants to Morel are "the last...