Word: fungused
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...Chatham Walk, where Wolfe could feel the rumble of his beloved trains from the New York Central tracks beneath Park Avenue, and above all shaped Wolfe's raw, spontaneous, poetic prose into Look Homeward, Angel. In time he became alarmed as Wolfe's great fungus of words threatened to expand beyond control. Once, Perkins asked him to write a brief description of the hero's reaction to his father's death, and Wolfe came back within hours with thousands of words on the life history of the doctor who attended the father's final illness...
...snatch up a tablecloth, wrap it around his waist and do a belly dance. In Paris the tune tumbles endlessly from Left Bank students' rooms; chefs abandon soufflés to hear it. From Stockholm to Sorrento, Bandleader Bob Azzam's Mustapha has spread like a rampaging fungus, is the biggest European juke and nightclub tune since Volare...
...hates Billy Graham, Perry Como, Southerners, Mother's Day, dogs ("vulgar love proletarians"), advertising ("a soggy, overripe fungus"), Guy Lombardo, Ernest Hemingway, and Harry J. Anslinger, the head of the U.S. Bureau of Narcotics. TV is in the hands of "lentilheaded sponsors' wives" and represents "some sort of gargantuan hoax," with one or two exceptions. (His own talk program, Alex in Wonderland, which is now being syndicated nationally, "is as refreshing as a breath of stale air in a vacuum.") As for people in general, they are "adenoidal baboons" caught in life's "erratically op erated sausage...
...occupation, Emperor Hirohito surrendered both his divinity and his isolation from the people of Japan. He visited mines and factories, would call out to fishermen, "Did you have a good catch today?" He crawled informally into ditches to examine plants that interested him-he is an expert on fungus -and would then unconcernedly wipe his muddy hands on his trousers...
Among the minor ills that bring discomforts to man, few are so persistent or so hard to treat as fungus infections-the cause of ringworm (including the stubborn ringworm of the nails), barber's itch, athlete's foot, and jockstrap itch. Last week 300 specialists in fungus infections, convened in Manhattan under auspices of the New York Academy of Sciences, agreed that 1959 had marked a turning point in the history of man and his itches: a new antibiotic, griseofulvin (extracted from a Penicillium species closely related to the source of penicillin), is the best remedy...