Word: snaked
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...Like a snake's tongue, the fire emerged fore and aft through hatches and ventilators. Amidships passengers milled. An officer urged them to seek shelter in the saloon. Boats were put over, women, children, the aged put into them...
...monomers (methyl methacrylate, ethyl methacrylate, etc.) which hardens into a glassy plastic. In blocks of this stuff he immured small dead frogs, a tarantula, the bones of a human hand (see cuts); a rattlesnake's head, complete with fangs, a peacock feather, an iridescent butterfly, a garter snake, flowers, ears of corn, ears of barley. Secretary Wallace, Dr. Sando's chief, keeps a 13-inch ear of hybrid corn, forever young and fair, imbedded in Plexiglas on his desk. Spectators marveled last week at the realistic look of tiny hairs on the tarantula...
...Snake Eyes. Zoologist Gordon Lynn Walls, Wayne University College of Medicine : "The snakes are known to have originated from the lizards in a relatively recent geological period, but despite the closeness of relationship, the eyes of snakes differ so much in structure from those of lizards (including modern legless ones) that no one would suspect, from the eyes alone, that a snake is any more closely related to a lizard than a cat is to a frog...
...Analysis of the bundle of substitutes that is the snake eye shows that the snakes must have once spent a long period underground, during which they lost their legs, ears, some of the bones of the skull, and almost lost their eyes. The eyes degenerated nearly as completely as have those of the blind fishes which live in lightless caves...
...Later, the snakes emerged above ground and fought their way back to 'respectability.' To help accomplish this, they had to invent one substitute after another within the eye, to take the place of the lost lizard-eye features. The fact that the snake eye is such a bunch of ersatz thus sheds light, for the first time, upon the habits and history of the first serpents...