Word: pouchful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unshaven soldier lies back on his pillow and exercises his good right arm. Every so often he twitches his left shoulder too, to exercise it, but where his left arm should be there is a white bandaged pouch like a hornets' nest taped to his body. This foreign legionnaire's left arm was amputated on the battlefield at Dienbienphu...
...search of the ambassador's 14 pieces of luggage, but it was too late to catch the 206,000 Egyptian pounds of his wife's money and the family jewels which, Egypt's public prosecutor charges, had already been whisked out of the country by diplomatic pouch...
...case, a Czech secret police agent, posing as an official Czech information officer, made friends with Oatis and at dinner gave him background information which painstaking Bill Oatis dutifully recorded in his notebook. The agent even suggested that Oatis try to smuggle the stories out via the U.S. diplomatic pouch (Oatis refused). Not long after, a Czech, who had once applied for a job in the A.P. office as a translator, came to the A.P. office to try to sell Oatis a story about the whereabouts of former Czech Foreign Minister Vladimir Clementis, who had mysteriously disappeared. Oatis turned down...
Name: diprotodon. Age: uncertain. Domicile: Australia. Physical characteristics: looks like a rhinoceros but has a pouch like a kangaroo. These are the vital specifications of one of the strangest prehistoric beasts known. Henceforth, thanks to Ruben A. Stirton, professor of paleontology at the University of California, scientists will learn a lot more about the diprotodon than the few fragmentary facts which, in the past, enabled them to put together only a vague sort of passport picture...
When Australia was first cut off by the sea from the rest of the world many million years ago, its only mammals were marsupials, whose young are born tiny and undeveloped and must be nursed along in a pouch. The primitive marsupials were probably like modern opossums. But they had Australia to themselves, and, protected from the competition of the fiercer placental mammals, they evolved in many directions and duplicated almost every type that the placentals produced in other parts of the world. Besides the familiar kangaroos (equivalent in habits to deer or antelopes), there are still pouched carnivora...