Word: otters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Otter Uses. By no means all the thousands of patients at a hospital like Manteno are fit to live in the wards. At any one time, hundreds are hospitalized with every disease in the book. Their plight had long been a nightmare to Dr. William J. Gallagher. Chlorpromazine to him has seemed like the answer to a prayer. Agitated patients who previously could not be kept quiet without undesirably heavy doses of barbiturates now rest comfortably. And, more important, they stop resisting the medical or surgical treatment that they need. After operations, they allow surgical wounds to heal...
...shiny paperback called Six Great Modern Short Novels may be disconcerted to discover that it actually contains six great modern short novels. Ordinarily, he may be no more likely to buy the hard-cover editions of these works than he would be to go shopping for a pack of otter hounds or a brocade waistcoat. But if he reads this volume, undeterred by the crepitation of bursting glue from the spine, he will have exposed himself to more first-class writing than can be found on the entire 1954 fiction list of U.S. and British publishers...
...knowledge of French and Spanish in a matter of days. He can imitate someone precisely after watching him for two minutes. He almost never answers the phone in his own voice, usually convinces the caller that he is someone else. His sense of humor is as graphic as an otter's. One day a woman columnist walked up to him and said in a sugary voice: "Why, you look like everybody else!" Marlon stared at her for a moment in silence, then turned without a word to the nearest corner and stood on his head...
...June 28 story on sea otters: incredible as it may seem, America owes its freedoms today partly to the undoing of the sea otter . . . Theirs were the pelts that lured the Russians to Alaska and California a few centuries ago. The Russians pulled up stakes here only because the vanishing of the sea otter made their stay unprofitable. Who knows what the course of history might have been...
...suggests that lovers of sea otters come to see his new charges promptly before something happens to them. So far they seem to be thriving, however. Hortense and Peter, though young, are taking an interest in each other. Washingtonians may yet see a baby otter circling round the pool on its mother's furry chest...