Word: elephantitis
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COPS SHOULD HAVE SKINS THICKER THAN AN ELEphant's hide. After all, each day they confront life's most horrible scenery, from murder to mayhem. But San Francisco police chief Richard Hongisto's thin skin got him canned last week because he allegedly couldn't stand the sight of a...
The intellectual seeds for this technological renaissance were sown more than a decade ago, when Angel and a handful of other pioneers began contemplating the challenge of building more powerful telescopes. Very quickly, they were forced to consider radical new approaches to mirror design. Simply scaling up old models would...
Television cannot convey the awkwardness and impossibility of an elephant standing on its head. After all, an elephant that climbs onto a small table, or an elephant holding a woman in its trunk, is still unmistakably an elephant. But an elephant that rolls forward, shoots its hind legs up, plants...
How did the trainer, William Woodcock, convince Peggy and Anna May to do this? How did he tell them to tumble forward? You can't just ask politely. This is not something elephants do in the wild. It is not easy to teach this move to a human, much less...
For them, there no wonder in the tightrope walk and no humor in the clown routines. The elephant smelled, cotton candy jacked up the dental bills and little glowing blue-and-red flashlight gadgets cluttered up the house.