Word: jellyfish
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...Naturalist of the expedition, Dr. Walter N. Koelz, radioed his first report to the National Geographical Society. Gray jellyfish, he told about; snails with wings; a fish like the bullhead, with ventral suckers for attaching itself to rocks while feeding; rare arctic birds in little-known summer plumage; land plants which eschew stems to snuggle next the ground and escape the wind; sea kelp, whose writhing shapes even Eskimos often mistook for animal life; carpets of wildflowers, luxuriant timothy, gaudy mosaics of lichen, orange and purple, on the black rock cliffs; the maniacal laughter of sky-filling clouds of dovekies...
...Square miles of water, colored purple by hosts of jellyfish; hundreds of paper nautili, attached to one another in long strings; transparent flounders with lacy fins; deep-sea mackerel flashing blue and yellow lights...
...present the electorate does include ignorant voters, and office-holders are chosen by people unable to discriminate between a whale and a jellyfish. But if a compulsory intelligence requirement is impossible there is an opening left. What cannot be done from authority above can be accomplished by spontaneous efforts at education from beneath. And here again the responsibility can be laid directly at the door of the college...