Word: fowling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...20th verse of the second chapter of Genesis says that "Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field." Clearly, this indicates that inventing names was to be an important function of his race. Contemporary Adam, confronting the menagerie of his own political attitudes, says: "This one is a gryphon. That one is a unicorn." Or, like Spiro Agnew, he invents hybridized contradictions: "That one is a gryphon unicorn." Lexicographically speaking, this Eden is hell...
...millions of pounds of the lethal metal have been dumped into the nation's waterways in the past 20 years, tainting untold numbers of fish, officials in ten states have closed down some commercial fisheries. Public Health workers in 16 states have warned residents against eating fish or fowl from suspect waterways. At least one family, the Hucklebys of Alamogordo, N. Mex., has been seriously poisoned after eating food contaminated with mercury...
...that the moon has no wildlife. Despite our progress in some areas, we persevere in our slaughter of this earth's creatures. Whether it be the killing of leopards or baby seals or alligators or whales for economic reasons or the killing of thousands and thousands of sea fowl by unnecessary dumping of oil wastes at sea, this planet's wildlife suffers unto extinction at our hands...
...hail! The pregnant Blue Bird of Happiness has nested in the '70s! Who wants this finely feathered fowl, anyway? Will it be cheaper for the traveler? No, ticket taxes will go up. More comfortable? No, four abreast instead of three. Will it be faster? Yes, if you don't have any bag gage. Who will benefit from it? Not the American traveler. The 747 [Jan. 19] is one pregnant bird that should have used the Pill...
Wild Boar. Halfway through his journey last week, Agnew was looking, listening and, in his effort to please, practicing what might be called Rotarian diplomacy. After a formal Nepalese dinner of guinea fowl and wild boar, he spoke in glowing exaggeration about the significance of the traditional namaste greeting. The act of placing hands together in prayerlike position, observed Agnew, "may well do more to ease the tension of the world today than all the diplomatic discussions." In talks with King Mahendra, Agnew said that President Nixon "understands" Nepal's friendship with China, but cautioned that the prospects...