Word: lizards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...