Word: pullyu
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...left in the deepest jungles of Africa; and even then they were very, very scarce. They had no tail, but a head at each end, and sharp horns on each head." Last week TIME's editors discovered that Lofting had been wrong in only one respect: the Pushmi-Pullyu is not extinct at all: it was revived in the form of the U.S. Congress, which, like the Pushmi-Pullyu, had trouble making up its mind, and often leaped in opposite directions after its two heads, getting nowhere. For a review of the Pushmi-Pullyu session, see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...This, Doctor," said Chee-Chee, "is the Pushmi-Pullyu-the rarest animal of the African jungles, the only two-headed beast in the world...