Word: fin
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...found in rocks from the Devonian Age, which date back 375 million years. The organism’s gills identify it as a fish, but it lacks the piscatorial characteristic of a neck that is connected to the shoulder girdle, Jenkins said. The fish’s front fin contains identifiable wrist bones and features that resemble fingers, he added...
...gently blesses the faces that give back a radiant daze of whatever it is that they see in the man--celebrity, charisma, holiness or, at least, a huge friendliness. But just there, floating from the left of the frame into the proceedings of history, like a shark's fin at the edge of a crowd splashing at the beach, moves a disembodied hand and its tense instrument, a blue-black pistol. It is poised there forever. And then it explodes at the Pope's white robe. --TIME...
...persuaded Oxford University Press to let her rewrite One Thousand and One Arabian Nights for young readers. Since then, McCaughrean has spent much of her career recrafting the classics - Homer, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Melville - for new generations. Her just-published version of Cyrano de Bergerac, mines Edmond Rostand's fin de siècle romcom for what it has to say about the power of language to transcend life's banalities, rather than for big-nose jokes. McCaughrean hopes that teenage lovers, raised on a diet of "wall-to-wall sex, violence and misery," will buy Cyrano for Valentine...
LENDING A FIN Fishermen in Indonesia reported that just before the 2004 tsunami hit, a school of dolphins pushed their boat to deeper, safer water...
...beatific,” or “God-like,” or “God.” They replenish my table with roasted meats and fine wine. Then, they create a feudal system in which I deny all capitalist bourgeois ascendancy and reinstall the fin de siècle leisure class. Your parents love you, assumedly. After all, you go to Harvard. When they remind others of your greatness, it is an act of love. By denying them, you’re displaying winner’s or victor’s guilt. You?...