Word: tailing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Still another division, Department "R," created early in 1960, devotes its entire time to the U.S., British and French military missions stationed in Potsdam. One section in Department "R" directs agents who live or work near the headquarters of the Western missions; another section is assigned to tail Western Allied mission officers everywhere they go in East Germany, while a third group devotes all its time to thinking up new harassing actions against the Western officers who man the Allied missions in East Germany...
...Puritan, which finds the economy of mass affluence "irredeemably unregenerate, lurching wastefully and precariously along, propped up only by armaments, tail-fins and payola...
...Persians (and all pedigreed long hairs are so named) have minds of their own, often forget early hygiene training. Their attitude is "Why bother?" The Burmese are wise, persuasive, and can freeze a fool owner in his tracks with a contemptuous stare and a flick of the tail. Abyssinians, purported to be the sacred cats of ancient Egypt, are strong, wildly willful, almost impossible to discipline. Only insiders know how rare and expensive Abyssinians are; they are often taken for alley cats by the uninitiated, and thus are considered perfect status symbols for people who hate status symbols...
...sorts of "research" was used to justify the change. The work of such experts as Arthur I. Gates of Columbia's Teachers College seemed to prove that children recognize words by visible "clues." For example, said Gates, the "tail" (or y) at the end of the word denotes monkey to children. Soon children were asked to recognize the "two little eyes" in moon-with logical results. Since letters meant nothing, moon turned into boon, loon or soon. Now, say critics. U.S. children are mired in a whole lexicon of reading errors-bolt for blot, bouquet for banquet, cottage...
...cell's outer coating. Presumably, this is what the flu virus uses to open a hole in the cell-factory wall for its nucleic-acid core to slip through. A virus known as T2 bacteriophage (it attacks bacteria) was found to have a tadpole shape; the "tail" is like a coiled spring around a tiny hypodermic needle that stabs the cell wall, and through this the nucleic-acid core is injected. Micrographs show whether viruses are basically cubic or helical in structure. They also reveal that viruses may have an exquisitely complex symmetry around as many as five axes...