Word: larking
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...caul which has to be ripped off by a profit-motivated finger. Sometimes the heaving, grunting sows, from weakness, clumsiness or distress, lie or roll on their farrow. Sometimes they try to eat them. Sweeter to a pig farmer's ear than the ethereal fluting of the prairie lark is a sow's "pumping," the regular ugh, ugh, ugh, which means that the litter has discovered how to suckle and that the sow, heaving over with a sigh to expose her batteries of teats, has taken on the thankless task. In a fortnight the pig population...
...Peary well stocked in golden eggs. As Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve, the befuddled buffoon he portrays for NBC (Sun., 6:30-7 p.m., E.S.T.), he got $40,000 for recording Jack, Puss in Boots and Rumpelstiltskin in a four-record album for Capitol Records. ("I did it just for a lark," said he, "and didn't expect to make more than carfare money...
Richards' own translation of Plato's Republic into Basic-he used 150 extra words besides-sounds as dry as Poet Richard Greene's satirical Basic version of Hark, Hark, the Lark (which also uses some unBasic words...
...wrote it in ten weeks after three false starts, was afraid his frail little Ninth would not stand up against Beethoven's great Ninth ("a frightening responsibility") or the critics. "They'll say, 'We expected something grandiose from you and you are giving us a lark.' " Reported Robert Magidoff of NBC, who heard it: "sensitive, playful and irresistible...
Citizens of Birmingham flocked in amiably for their tests. Some strong men fainted. High-school boys & girls arrived in whooping droves, made a lark of it. Everybody got registration slips and had to carry them about like draft cards. By last week the county had given 287,987 tests, examined virtually every eligible citizen. Result: 2% of the white population and 30% of the Negroes were found to have syphilis. All with infections less than four years old (older cases were considered non-catching) were ordered to report for treatment at hospitals, health centers or to a private doctor. Some...