Word: elephantic
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By his own admission, gregarious, blustering Defense Secretary Louis Johnson is a man with an elephant-thick hide. But the mounting charges that his heavy-footed economy was wrecking U.S. defenses stung him last week into a trumpeting roar of defiance: "The defenses of the United States as of today...
Japan's children had a gift to exchange for the elephant presented to Tokyo's Ueno Zoo by India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru (TIME, Oct. 17). Tokyo's Master Toymaker Jiro Aidawa had promised to make them something free of charge. Last week he displayed...
-The present Ruandan ruler, or Mwami, is Mutara III, a gentle giant standing 6 ft. 10 in. He is one of the high-jumping, dance-loving Batutsi, among the tallest men in the world, who have ruled for 300 years over the average-sized Bahutu (94% of the population) and...
Nature indeed follows art; at least so it would seem if we can believe your Viennese correspondent who reported The Elephant restaurant [TIME, Jan. 23].
The story of the elephant cutlet concluded Ludwig Bemelmans' first book published here, My War with the United States (1937) As many of your readers will remember, the story concerned a Viennese restaurateur who wanted to run a restaurant such as had never existed beforehand advertised "Cutlets from Every...