Word: lizard
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...felt by his audiences to be an escape from the crucifying emotional matter of the gains and losses. One more dazzling Irishman had talked himself out of life into the heavens like a whizzing rocket and had come down dead and extinct like the stick. One more superbly agile lizard had lived off its own tail, consumed itself and come back to exactly what it was before...
...game ended when Michel climbed to the top of the church to pull down its shaky cross. He fell, but only Paulette saw him fall. A little later, his family stumbled across the children's miniature cemetery, with its crosses labeled "Mole," "Rat," "Lizard," "3 Ladybirds," "15 Ants," "6 Flies." They did not think to look for Michel under the largest cross of all, the one from the church, where Paulette had buried him before wandering away...
...still has some of its distended shape. In 1812, when Elbridge Gerry was governor of Massachusetts, his legislature carved up the state's districts to keep the Republicans of that day in power and the Federalists out. When they got through, the Essex South District came out lizard-shaped. Federalist Editor Benjamin Russell had a map of the new district in his office, and on it Artist Gilbert Stuart one day added head, claws and wings and remarked: "That will do for a salamander." Replied Editor Russell: "Better say a Gerrymander!" and a useful word was born...
...Drop That Lizard! After two months as strangers, Lawrence wrote again. He said frankly that "my quarreling with you was largely a quarreling with something . . . I was struggling away from in myself." He described his latest conclusions about "a blood-consciousness which exists in us independently of the ordinary mental consciousness . . . If a lizard falls on the breast of a pregnant woman, then the blood-being of the lizard passes with a shock into the blood-being of the woman, and is transferred to the fetus . . . Do you know what science says about these things...
Rumania's Amazonian Foreign Minister Ana Pauker, wearing a New Look dress of white-flowered blue silk, with a grey lizard handbag, rose and in stumbling Russian said she had always cherished that language as her mother tongue. She had to be prompted by an assistant when she forgot the Russian word for "love."* At the end she mopped her brow in obvious relief. After these satellite tributes, English was voted down 7-3. (Next day the Bulgarians, Hungarians and Yugoslavs switched from Russian to French for their speeches...