Word: snakes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ever purer than Adhemar de Barros. His jutting profile, immense belly, and expansive grandstand manner were pure Falstaff. His snake-charming baritone and God-fearing homilies were pure medicine show. His pork-barrel pilfering as three-time Governor of São Paulo, Latin America's greatest industrial state, was pure Tammany. He once fled the country to escape a jail sentence for misappropriating public funds, and he seemed almost proud to be known as the politician who "builds while he steals...
...Sidonie was a charming little chatte with long chestnut braids that got tangled with her toes while she slept and made her dream of snakes. One day a sure-enough snake turned up in the plausible person of Henri Gauthier-Villars, a 34-year-old literary hack who married her and then shut her up in his Paris garret. "Put down what you remember of your board-school days," he instructed her bluntly. "Don't be shy of the spicy bits. Money's short...
...Wallaby damned! Next time some anteloper is Ghana snake in and monkey around with the gnus, lemur know ahead. I roared so, the cubs in our pride were all apeset. Father said: "How horribull, she's been pythoned! Alligator a drink-you kids call the dogtor and giraffter that go bison aspirin. We'll keep her lion down hunter the table and cassowary ibis on the rest of TIME." That'll rabbit...
Prior Rights. The victory for private power stemmed from the court's finding that the private combine had first claim to harness that sector of the turbulent Snake by virtue of its 1955 FPC permit to investigate the possibilities of two smaller dams near by. Held the court: it "would be manifestly unfair" to a private company that "has expended large sums over a long period, if a state or municipality could step in and reap the fruit of its labors by obtaining a license merely because of the [Power Act] preference...
...case. Said the court: "The Secretary of the Interior was more than once specifically invited to participate in the proceedings, but for about two years he did nothing." The court swept aside Udall's contention that the FPC had no right to allow private dams on the Snake because they would affect water flow and power output at nine downstream plants in which the Government has invested $1.67 billion. That, ruled the court, "would mean that the existence of one federal dam in a waterway would require that any future dams therein be federally constructed. There is no such...