Word: fish
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...produces the hormones that influence growth and development. The cerebellum, a fist-sized structure at the rear of the brain that controls movements and coordination, enables man to touch his nose with his finger or throw touchdown passes. But it is the cerebrum that distinguishes man from other animals. Fish have little or no cerebral tissue, nor do birds. Chimpanzees, man's closest animal relatives, have larger cerebrums than most other primates, but man's is the largest...
...work of Pietro Germi, who once again (as in Divorce, Italian Style) makes social slapstick out of Italian law. Hoffman appears as a shy bank clerk whose beautiful wife (Stefania Sandrelli) floods him with killing affection. She is an embarrassment at the table, where she delights in sucking fish heads, and in bed, where she screams like an air-raid siren during orgasm. Months of this kind of married life, plus a hysterical pregnancy and intrusive in-laws, are enough to drive Hoffman into the arms of another woman (Carla Gravina). Hoffman's life thus becomes a long, wearing...
...Fried Fish. Ervin was a forceful foe of Senator Joe McCarthy when he was indulging in his red-baiting excesses. Ervin was a principal backer of the Bail Reform Act of 1966 that allowed poor people to remain out of jail before their trials if they were reasonable risks. Over the years, he has held many little-publicized hearings looking into Government snooping and surveillance. Finally, as Watergate unfolded, it was as if his entire career were preparatory to this ultimate confrontation with a power-hungry Chief Executive. Fighting the White House on all fronts-from Executive privilege to freedom...
Asked what he will do when he retires, Ervin said that he would admire the sunsets back home in Morganton, N.C., and do some fishing. It is more likely that he will continue to peruse his well-thumbed copy of the Constitution and keep a baleful eye on any people he suspects are trying to subvert it. Those are the fish that Senator Sam likes to catch...
...utility might also find itself responding to a new study by the Atomic Energy Commission's Oak Ridge Laboratories, which debates the utility's earlier estimates of what the Storm King plant could do to the Hudson's fish population...