Word: lurks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ASGER JORN, 50, a Dane and a former pupil of Leger, makes art scampering with the mythical trolls who lurk in arctic forest shadows. Jorn has dissolved the haunted figures of Nolde and Munch. In his equally demoniac fantasy, man remains only as dismembered memories in a decorative dream, a roiling Rorschach test of tortured, teasing sensibilities...
...fall, was quick to endorse B. & K. Gomulka wants to preserve his country's relative "Liberalism" and fears that a final split would cancel his freedom of action. The Polish public, however, fears that a détente with China might encourage the influential Stalinist elements that lurk within the Polish Communist Party...
Difficult Choice. Tetanus bacteria lurk in sewage and soil, in dust and rust. They can enter the human body through any penetrating wound, through the unhealed navel of the newborn, and through drug addicts' contaminated dope. There is so little that even the best of medical centers can do once the disease has developed, Dr. Christensen insists prevention is the only reliable cure. Tetanus toxoid is cheap and safe; it rarely causes unwanted reactions. It should first be given in a course of three shots paced a month apart, he says. There should be a booster a year later...
...time, if not before, the aspiring teachers who know Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings (and every teacher should) will begin to see the tower as something other than the beacon of American education. Behind the window slits, vaulted ports, and bulging bastions, grey-green scaly orks will lurk, whispering in the Black Speech, plotting hideous amusements. Hulking trolls will patrol the moat. Shelob, the monstrous arachnid, will have spun her webs among the stairways, ducts, and circuits of the "service perimeter." On the battlements will wait the flying Nazgul, their piercing cries cutting across the Common...
...wants to rent a cottage like hers, a solitary house by the sea. She offers him supper and a bed for the night. He accepts with apparent gratitude, but when she closes her bedroom door he goes gliding silently from room to room like a weasel on the lurk. The next morning, with many thanks for her hospitality, he leaves to catch a bus, but several hours later he is back. "Missed it," he says with an ingenuous smile. He stays another night, and on the third day, when they go swimming, he makes love to her in a meadow...