Word: mous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pursuit of the Mous, the Snaile, and the Clamm by Mary Durant. Illustrated by Victoria Chess. 247 pages. Meredith. $4.95. Subtitled "a roving dictionary of the animal kingdom," this lighthearted book traces the names of animals back to abstruse origins. (The lowly burrowing gopher, for example, derives from gaufre, the French word for honeycomb.) The illustrations are shaggy dog in style, but accompanying quotations from naturalists, explorers and novelists can be stern indeed. Thus Admiral Jaacob van Neck on the dodo bird, circa 1598: "They have thick heads only partially covered with feathers and in place of wings only...
Once we realize the possibilities, our power, as men of action, is enor mous. It is tru-300 people can 'shut down" (i.e., cut down the attendance of classes at) a university like Harvard, or even Harvard itself. The bigger a big corporate organism gets, the more that organism demands that its members acquiesce (even though it demands benignly). In a situation like this, men who are willing to act will have the greatest impact, because their actions are so unusual, and because their opponents will not attack them. A big corporate organism is also easier to attack because...
...past when no direct quotes were permitted at a presidential news conference. From Harry Truman's brusque "No comment" to Lyndon Johnson's lengthy circumlocutions, Presidents have learned to develop gambits for avoiding touchy subjects. But the anony mous answer remains the most popular. And it leads on occasion to such an apparent absurdity as a New York Herald Tribune article attributing quotes from a walking presidential press conference to a "high White House official," while directly above the story appeared an Associated Press photo picturing L.B.J. and the strolling reporters...
Amid peals of laughter the Council sent the bill to Finance by a chanimous mous vote...