Word: goat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Magdalene (Pantheon; $3), is one of the most intelligent and provocative efforts yet made to reconstruct her character and its meaning. The author, Father Raymond Leopold Bruckberger, is a French Dominican priest, recently transplanted to the U.S., whose earlier books of memoirs and stories (One Sky to Share, Golden Goat) have had considerable success (TIME, Aug. 11; Nov. 24). His purpose in writing this one was to bring back to life the Magdalene, "la Femme coupèe en morceaux-the woman hacked into bits by modern exegetes...
...reaching his decision, the learned judge considered his own name, one of Philadelphia's most distinguished.*"Not even this court should escape attention," he observed. "The writer of this opinion struggles along with the name that reduces etymologically to Polite Goat." With that, Polite Goat legalized the name of Peaceful Heart, establishing a precedent which another Philadelphia court followed when it changed the name of Miss Blonchile Dawkins to Sweete Love...
...correspondents often found themselves in exciting or bizarre situations. Alexander Campbell, who covered a large section of the African continent from his headquarters in Johannesburg, sent in the most unusual expense-account items after a trip into the African bush: "one trip to see witch" and "white goat for witch." And Rebecca Franklin received the most unexpected accolade, when Georgia's House of Representatives passed a vote of congratulations on her promotion to contributing editor of TIME...
...came before Commander Schaeffer's U-977 had fired a torpedo. Schaeffer assembled his crew, many of them teenagers, and filled them with scary bilge about what they could expect in postwar Germany-how all its males would no doubt be sterilized and the country turned into a goat pasture. He added another naive touch which he obviously hopes will take in 1953's reader, to the effect that all Allies had fought not out of hatred of Nazism, "as they have pretended-for Naziism ended with the death of Hitler-but of the people of Germany themselves...
...appalling how many scientifically qualified people have been victimized by that goat. The fact is that the goat's digestive system and odor are biologically unique and not to be compared with normal human digestive processes or odors . . . The action of green grass has no more to do with the action of processed chlorophyll than the action of coal tar has to do with the well-known coaltar derivative aspirin. One would not expect coal miners to be free of headaches because they inhale coal dust. Nor should anyone . . . expect a grass-eating goat to be free of odor...