Word: snaking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Watch the Snake!" Moments later, McKeon took the occasion for a lecture. "Here's something to remember," he sang out. "When you're in water in combat never go out in the middle. You make a perfect target, especially on a moonlight night. Keep close to the shore. Keep moving or you will bog down." Not everyone heard him; there was too much confusion. Some of the boots tried to joke. One yelled: "Hey, something just swam between my legs!" Another found a short piece of rope and waved it, shouting: "Watch the snake! Watch the snake...
...such sights as the magnificent, white marble Taj Mahal at Agra, the ancient Holy City of Benares, Mt. Everest looming over the green tea gardens of Darjeeling. Off the beaten track are trips to the village of Molar Bund, 16 miles from New Delhi, which is entirely inhabited by snake charmers, and to the famed cave temples of Elephanta and Ajanta. For $1,500 per person, two-week tiger hunts can be arranged; a rebate is guaranteed if no tiger is seen, but not if the hunter misses, since "no responsibility is taken for bad shooting...
...cure' may be simply a study of enzymatic action on malignant cells until the eager-beaver writer gets wind of it. By the time he tries to present you to the readers as a latter-day Pasteur, your medical society is ready to drum you out as a snake oil salesman...
Like Oscar Wilde's strong-minded dowager, Lady Bracknell, Madame de Sévigné held that "health is the primary duty of life." She was her daughter's full-time amateur diagnostician, strongly opposed to bloodletting, but an advocate of "viper soup," i.e., snake consomme. Often Madame de Sévigné sounds rather like a faded copy of "Versailles Confidential." ("At one fell stroke the other day, the Queen lost 20,000 crowns and missed hearing Mass.") Letter-Writer De Sévigné is more fun when she is consciously making her own mots...
...class prosperity: neat two-story homes in Ikoyi suburb, equipped with every modern convenience; a ramshackle bar in Shopono Street doing a hotcakes business in the best imported beer at 35? a bottle. A block from Ibadan's new University College, Nigerian necromancers sell dried mice, parrot beaks, snake fangs and yellow and blue face powders. On Sundays and pleasant evenings in Lagos, the folk who dress by day in rags emerge, as if by magic, in natty slacks and clean, yellow nylon sport shirts for an evening at the movies. And amid Nigeria's poverty, there...