Word: hedgehog
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...knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing. -Fable of Archilochus...
...serious scientific work with kernels of fact in most of the fantastic legends. The remarkable thing, says White, is not that most of the observations were wildly distorted, but that they were made at all, across continents and centuries. Science aside, who would want to miss the 12th century hedgehog model that "provides itself with double breathing holes, so that, when it suspects the north wind is going to blow, it can shut up the northern one"? Or the camel which, when sold to a stranger, falls ill in disgust over the price? Animals may not be what the bestiary...
...which described this erratic but Pacific aviator as "an odd but charming creature which serves no useful purpose at all," was somewhat disturbing. Although I do not consider myself a bird fancier, the statement sets off a few serious overtones. What is the useful purpose of a starling, a hedgehog, or indeed, TIME'S Science writer...
...enemy in Dienbienphu had been threatening the isolated French base at Laichau, a hedgehog supplied by air, which the French have been using to build up anti-Communist guerrilla forces among the friendly Thai tribesmen. Dienbienphu was also important to the enemy supply, especially for rice raids...
Said Salan: "My decisions are made within a certain framework established in France before I took command. The framework is secret and personal." Salan described how he had stopped the Communists short of the Mekong River in Laos by creating hedgehog positions in the Plaine des Jarres and at Luang Prabang, reinforcing them by air: "The enemy had 40 divisions: I had twelve. I had to wage a cautious war of maneuver...