Word: humped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...less delicate age had named Camel's Rump. The other was a literary movement, which called itself realism, whose adherents proclaimed their intent to describe the world as it really was. The prudes dealt easily enough with the mountain; it became, and still remains. Camel's Hump. They had more trouble with the literary movement. For decades it was a standoff; realism did not disappear, but neither were the early realists (themselves nearly as prudish as their critics) able to keep their promise and describe the world...
Weedy Neurosis. The source of Howells' crippling tameness is more complex than his frequently cited refusal to write about sex (no American could write about sex in those days of rump-hump squeam-ishness). Howells simply could not write, and preferred not to think, about the darker sides of human nature. Much as he admired Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, the realities they wrote of were to him merely Russian realities; it would be impossible to write a Russian novel in the U.S., he wrote, because here life took on a more "smiling aspect." Biographer Edwin H. Cady presents evidence that...
...squalene, a noisome extract of shark-liver oil. The dogs have already learned to ignore coyote and rabbit scents, and they can whiff a shark-flavored fragment half a mile downwind. Vernon Miller, chief of the range instrumentation division, thinks that the dog detectives will be over the research hump and busy at serious work within six months...
...Cardinal's appearance (Ford's typical saucer-size taillights, vestigial fins and probably a Thunderbird-like grille), Ford has been testing the car in semi-disguised form in Germany and Italy (see cut). Main Cardinal features: a front-wheel drive that will eliminate the troublesome "hump" caused by the drive shaft in most cars; a 70-h.p., V-4 engine that promises up to 35 miles per gallon of gas and rockets the little car along at more than 80 m.p.h. ; sculptured styling that will allow for more leg room and trunk space than the Volkswagen. Price: around...
...does not help much in treating individual cases. The disease is hard to diagnose. The symptoms closely resemble those of other infections, including parrot fever and flu. Laboratory tests to establish that Eaton Agent is involved may take three weeks. By that time, a patient is well over the hump. Conceding that antibiotics should not be used indiscriminately, an A.M.A. editorial nonetheless suggests that Declomycin be given in epidemic situations where Eaton Agent is strongly suspected to be the villain...