Word: specking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Higher and Higher (R.K.O.Radio). One of the most remarkable events since the Flood took place on New Year's Eve in some 50 U.S. cinegogues. On a screen wispy with angelic clouds, a clinching pair of lovers receded to a vanishing point and were replaced by a speck which grew & grew into the huge image of a gaunt, sad-eyed, solitary young man. His posture suggested St. Francis preaching to the birds, and the hysterical twittering of the audience sustained the illusion. The young man was, in fact, in his own peculiar way, delivering a benediction. He was singing...
After more testimony on five other Fernel nostrums (among them: Fernel's Nerve and Brain Food, which Northwestern's Professor A. J. Carlson said "would have no more effect than a fly speck on the Wrigley Building," the Court found the defendant guilty on seven counts, sentenced him to a $500 fine and a year in prison on each count, to be served concurrently. For Jean Paul Fernel, who once skipped bail in Detroit when charged with having his patients' clothes frisked while he gave them medical examinations, this was his first conviction...
...Japan's name for the island speck, meaning "South Bird Island...
Around the Clock. Not until the tracer bullets flew out toward the eleven o'clock angle could I spot the tiny black speck moving toward us. Quickly it became a plane with wings, bigger & bigger, then streaked out of sight to the left. The only sounds were the roar of the Fortress' engines and the shrill clatter of the .50-caliber machine guns. We clapped on our tin helmets. My knees felt as though someone had removed the bones...
...vision, for instance, allows it to "see" beyond the horizon, through fog and clouds, in black dark. It can "see" through stone and steel to detect invisible internal flaws. It can "see" the whiskers on a disease germ that is only a speck in the best microscope...