Word: skunk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Merriam Co. is the only direct descendant, corporately speaking, of Noah Webster,* who in 1828 produced the first truly American dictionary, which in its 70,000 listings stressed the New World's lusty new words, from applesauce to skunk. The descendants have never matched Noah's style, clarity and wit. He was a practical man given to phonetic spelling (ake, crum, skreen). He was a feeling man given to personalizing his definitions: "All sin is hateful in the sight of God and of good men." Or: "In short, we love whatever gives us pleasure and delight, whether animal...
...these noisome spots, the Frio Cave in southern Texas. While rabid bats flew overhead spraying them with urine, they slogged into the cave carrying wire-mesh cages containing dogs, domestic cats, raccoons, ringtail cats (a raccoon-like animal of the Southwest), coyotes, grey foxes and one striped skunk. The animals were fed and tended carefully for one week, then removed and isolated. One fox, two coyotes and one ringtail cat died of rabies...
...crucial issues of the New Frontier so far -Laos and Cuba - Mauldin has hit as hard as anyone: Khrushchev amiably consumes a fowl (Laos) as Kennedy looks on, a blind Kennedy is flung heels over head by a Seeing-Eye dog (the CIA) hot on the trail of a skunk clearly meant to be Cuba. "Once Kennedy was President," says Mauldin, "I didn't even give him the usual 100 days of grace. I stung him hard. And I'll sting him again." Such deep engagement in battle, says Cartoonist Paul Flora of Hamburg's weekly...
...directions, "emerges, as if from clay, rises, stretches, yawns, discovers one by one the use of his limbs." He then gets acquainted with the garden's livestock as they cavort in pairs and trios - the walrus and the ape, the lamb and the leopard, the rabbit, the skunk and the fox - all costumed to [he last whisker. Weary at last of the ballet of the beasts, Adam rests on the gnarled, raised roots of a tree. It is then that Eve (Sally Bailey) emerges from underneath him. For Choreographer Christensen, the biggest problem was the birth...
...member of the musteline family (mink, marten, mongoose, badger, weasel, skunk), the otter is essentially "a big water weasel"-most northern breeds reach the size of a spaniel, but some in South America grow as big as a seal. He looks like a giant, furry snail. He swims as a swallow flies, all liquid grace. He runs like something squeezed out of a tube, and whenever he sits down he looks like a six-year-old girl in her mother's fur coat-in some species his hide is so loose that it hangs down in folds and even...