Word: quainted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser received a visitor who, by wide repute, was a purveyor of quaint and useless notions. His claim: he had solved the problem that for 7,000 years had resisted solution, the taming of the Nile. Nasser called in a trusted engineer, who said, "The man's crazy." "That may be," Egypt's new young boss replied, "but don't come back until you're sure." The crazy idea was to build a dam barely 300 feet high which would back up the Nile's waters for 400 miles...
Such success at the track sharpened Butcher Auteroche's appetite for live horseflesh. Last month he spotted another likely winner: a neurotic chestnut trotter named Fabliau, given to temper tantrums and the quaint habit of kicking his racing rig to pieces. After paying 80,000 francs for the horse, Auteroche spared him from the butcher's pistol, had him gelded instead. "The operation," he says proudly, "was a complete success. Fabliau is now so gentle he's a household pet. For company we've let him have a cow as a stable mate. I think...
...Baptists try hard to carry on the faith and practice of primitive Christianity. To them, adult baptism is not merely a quaint traditional rite; it sharply points to their conviction that the Christian faith can be accepted only by one who can think and speak for himself.* Similarly, insistence on baptism by immersion, as it is presented in the Bible, fulfills the twin symbolism of washing from sin and of death and rebirth, as well as pointing to the Baptists' conviction that Scripture is the complete and sufficient basis of the Christian faith. Orthodox Christian tradition regards the church...
...least thing that happens to her, her husband and their only son George is of overwhelming interest, and she records their conversation in some of the least plausible dialogue to appear outside Smilin' Jack. Her saving grace is an ability to see men of many colors not as quaint objects but as individual human beings, and a warm faith in Asian friends which is refreshingly free of condescension...
...plant, a kind of alga (Aegagropila sauteri), found in three small patches of water in Lake Akan on the northern island of Hokkaido. Their name means "ball of fur," and fair-sized specimens look like green, fuzzy tennis balls. What makes them so dearly beloved is their quaint behavior...