Word: spruceness
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...parodies the euphemistic style of John Lyly (who is today not exactly a widely read author), and lampoons a number of the verbal fads and affectations of the late sixteenth century. It is stuffed with what its leading character, Berowne, describes as "Taffeta phrases, silken terms precise./Three-piled hyperboles, spruce affectation,/Figures pedantical." And there are hundreds of puns, many be-labored mercilessly. How many of today's theatregoers relish extended puns on long-obsolete terms for a male deer of the second, third, and fourth year? Or puns that require the knowledge that 'suitor' was pronounced 'shooter' and that...
...most closely studied example is the effect of pesticides, which have sharply improved farm crops but also caused spectacular kills of fish and wildlife. In the Canadian province of New Brunswick, for example, the application of only one-half pound of DDT per acre of forest to control the spruce budworm has twice wiped out almost an entire year's production of young salmon in the Miramichi River. In this process, rain washes the DDT off the ground and into the plankton of lakes and streams. Fish eat the DDT-tainted plankton; the pesticide becomes concentrated in their bodies...
...separate flights from the wilds to Fairbanks while steering his single-engined Gull Wing Stinson with his feet. Petersen's line has never had a fatality, in spite of plenty of close calls. Once Petersen was forced down on frozen Rhone River. On the ground he laid a spruce-bough SOS, and after he had been spotted, had to wait helplessly for several more days while his rescuer stole some of his business...
...Spruce School has a large Mexican enrollment, and this provided an interesting sidelight. Among the "spurter" Mexican boys with faces that loked Anglo-Saxon showed higher gains than those with more identifiably Mexican faces...
Rosenthal has conducted similar experiments at elementary schools in a Massachusetts suburb and a middleclass town in Ohio. Although Analysis of these two tests has not been completed, the results have not clearly corroborated the Spruce School findings...