Word: talonic
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...words last week. POW! WHEEE! FUMP! For three long hours manhole covers burst from their settings, hurtled through the air, followed by 20-ft. comets of flame. The first covey of covers was flushed on the Boulevard St. Denis. Soon they were popping on St. Lawrence Boulevard, Jean Talon, St. André and De Fleurimont Streets. Mile away, an isolated gas station at the corner of Cremazie & St. Lawrence Boulevards blew up with a roar. A precise ambulance interne noted that the manager when picked up had been blown just 35 ft. Two miles further out the manholes of Guin...
...gold British sovereigns, one dated 1901, the other 1912, plinked to the mucky deck of the Italian salvage ship Artiglio II (artiglio = talon) last week as she rode off Brest, France. The sovereigns were but a tender of what the next clutch of the Artiglio IPs five-clawed dredge was to raise from the "treasure" ship Egypt 400 ft. below. The dredge dipped, scrabbled, rose 15 tense minutes later with two gold bars and a scattering of sovereigns. The Italian crew went hysterical. "Gold! Gold!" they howled. They screamed, wept, embraced. Three years of painstaking, hazardous marine engineering...
Some of the characterizations can be described by no other word than "immense" in its slangiest sense. Andrew Jackson, rest his democratic soul, is an "old turkey cock, on a forest rock" and later on "his face was a talon, his hands were talons." You do not need to collect postage stamps to know that Andrew Jackson did look like that. Jezebel puts on her various guards and jewels and "stopped the honest prophets as they marched upon their...
...times of crisis in the past it was rarely selfishness or cruelty or strength of talon and of claw that determined success or failure. Survival values at different times have been measured in different terms...
Again it was suggested that if we take the words ce qui pend au talon, "that which hangs down to the heels," and then erase all but the verb and the noun, we shall retain the sound of pantalons, from which the present spelling might well arise. The word, at any rate, has been used in English since the time of Hudibras, who says...