Word: genus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...root of Tuchman's debate with the "genus Toynbee," is their fundamental difference in philosophy: "I am a disciple of the ounce," Tuchman writes...
...into extinction the deer and other browsing ungulates that now inhabit forests. But the superprolific rabbit will exploit this newly opened niche by evolving into a deer-size species that combines the lagomorph's gnawing teeth with the long, hoofed legs of the ungulates to form a new genus, Ungulagus. These super-rabbits will not have to worry about the wolves, foxes and feline carnivores that attack deer today; such predators will vanish with their present prey. But they may have to keep a watchful eye out for falanx, Amphimorphodus cynomorphus: dog-size predators likely to evolve as today...
...Genus jelly bean is a descendant of Turkish delight, a gelatinous confection dating from biblical times, and a French technique called panning, in which the soft centers are hard-coated with syrup and sugar; the process takes up to two weeks. Goelitz plants in California and Chicago are now on six-day weeks; new orders take two months or more. Unless you drop in at the Oval Office...
...large genus of unpleasant plastic animals, many of whom appear to have spaceships somewhere in their genetic past. Hornetroid, for instance, the "fearsome myriapod from the far off galaxy of Thoraxid," comes equipped with folding landing gear. Then there's Terraphant, "the terrifying mammoth from the remote world of Visceros...