Word: elephantic
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The train thundered down the tracks between passenger-loading platforms, catapulted over the stopping block, plunged through a newsstand, and emerged into the concourse like a bull elephant bursting out of a screen of jungle. It headed incongruously across the floor toward the crowded waiting room. Then the concrete flooring...
On TIME'S covers during the next several years were a jumping horse, a champion pointer, the sea elephant Goliath II ("insanely popeyed, ponderously oozy, hideously fierce of tusk and whisker"), the race horse Cavalcade and four Derby horses on one cover.
Second place Eliot is far ahead of the rest of the field with two first places and two sixth places for 310 points. The championship Elephant football team picked up 150 of those points.
Elephants, he says, cannot see clearly beyond 25 yards, but they can hear and smell for hundreds of yards, and sometimes farther. More than once he followed groups of elephants which had detached themselves from the main herd; when he revealed himself, the groups fled. And at the same moment...
During his four years, Oberjohann captured 19 baby elephants (all of them died), killed a dozen or more, had a leg injured and some ribs fractured by an irritated elephant, barely escaped with his life a hundred times. The herds knew and hated him, he believes. Yet sometimes, in their...