Word: frogging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...edge (where else would you use all those muscles?), that Arnold too was an existentialist. It was not insignificant to Hercules that America had become a nation of joggers, that America had a jogging president at the time the embassies started to burn. Why jog? Hercules remembered seeing a frog's heart pumping away in saline solution, two hours after the frog died. Joggers were interested in living long lives, not necessarily good ones; they forgot that, as Engels wrote, "Quality changes quality...
...unlike the Piper's troops, Lobel's keep reappearing and asking for more. He has responded with scores of books, and this season he presents Days with Frog and Toad (Harper & Row; $5.95), five short stories that teach the value of friendship, as well as the delights of working, loafing and being alone...
...office twice a week, covered their beats as best they could and worked on long-term stories. Some two dozen Timesmen busied themselves writing books, others freelanced for magazines, but none completely escaped the ennui that afflicts a newspaperman suddenly without a newspaper. "I feel like a frog in the winter," Times Foreign Editor Charles Douglas-Home said at one point. "All horizons have contracted. Things continue to function, but at a tiny percent of efficiency...
...Everyone told me that when I came back from France I'd be a skinny frog, so I had to make sure they were wrong," he said...
...title of the Garlic Capital of the World, held its First Annual Garlic Festival last week, and Lloyd Harris explained: "There's something about garlic that creates excitement. People can get real loose around garlic." Bobby Waller liked it hot at the Hamilton County Fair, amid the frog-jumping, tobacco-spitting and Dolly Parton look-alike contests. At 16, he's billed as the world's youngest fire-eater...