Word: specking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...decoration schools of painting which seem to constitute the bulk of current recognized endeavor." Trompe-l'Oeil work, he knows, "is not popular with the esthete. They say . . . we have a machine called a camera that will do it better. I am not convinced. This is not a speck-by-speck translation. It is a distillation process, sending it through an artist, that makes the difference between this art and a camera job. ... I have never experienced a more gratifying way of working...
...Cosmologists consider the earth a non-typical speck of heavy-element impurities...
...famed leaf-cutting parasol ants, long thought to gather leaves solely for wallpaper, actually chew them into a pulp to make an underground compost heap in which to grow mushroom spores. When a parasol princess flies forth to mate, she carries in her cheek her dowry: a speck of mushroom culture to start the garden that will feed her thousands of future children...
Almost equally dangerous are the maladies attacking America's fruits. In his penetrating contribution "Sooty Blotch and Fly Speck," author A. B. Groves examines two significant, apple-destroying fungi. Describing these diseases, he says, "Sooty Blotch appears as sootlike spots or blotches. Fly speck makes dark spots and looks something like fly specks." If more of Dr. Groves diagnoses were taken seriously, farmers would no longer need to wonder about those funny, black things on their apples...
Prince Louis de Broglie, Nobel Prize-winning physicist: "Maybe the entire universe . . . from atom to spiral nebulae, is nothing but a tiny speck of a much vaster reality...