Word: littered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there is one thing that Clayesmore has plenty of, it is toads. Every winter hundreds of little corpses litter the highway, and hundreds of live toads congregate to breed in the school's lake or empty swimming pool. How do the toads get there? In 1950 Biology Teacher H. J. Moore collected a band of boys, started them on a Kinsey-type study of the annual migration. Through snow and sleet and dark of night, the study has gone on ever since...
...pack rat, cannot bear to throw anything away. Meticulously, he collects and records every circumstance of his characters' lives. Turning over every last scrap of detail, he seems to hope desperately that somewhere he and the reader may catch some glimpse of a real life beneath the litter of facts. Reunion concerns the get-together, eight years after, of eight survivors of a battle-scarred company. In the cast: the rising young lawyer with a beautiful wife and a not-so-beautiful Greenwich Village mistress, the ex-sergeant who plays the horses and the fillies, the gentleman farmer whose...
...some of his colleagues called arrogant and authoritarian, laid down strict rules for his method. The younger the animal from which glands or cells were taken, the better. This meant using calves, piglets, or other young animals still unborn-taken from dams slaughtered just before they were due to litter. (At one time his patients had to go to slaughterhouses for treatment with fresh tissues, but a Heidelberg chemical company has found a way to preserve the cells in powdered form so that they keep indefinitely.) Niehans insists that his treatment must not be tried in cases of infection...
...life-size painting of a baby taking its first step beams with self-conscious bravery; his old lady in a wicker chair, a sort of off-key Whistler's mother, is the essence of enduring patience. Even his cadaverous Skid Row figures, asleep amid prowling mongrels and a litter of old newspapers on a sidewalk, exhibit a kind of desperate valor. Says Smith: "They may be resigned, even despairing, but they're still trying to live...
...deepest dive in history. If any group was unimpressed it was the scientists at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute of most descents (Piccard fell asleep on one) the Institute has generally eschewed the dramatic single man exploits and worked instead with teams of scientists in a matter-of-fact litter of colorful instruments. In place of the squat and formidible Bathyscaphe most of the material gathering for the institute is done by the unique Atlantis, a graceful one hundred and forty-two foot steel ketch...