Word: tern
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...founding fathers debated such a plan at the Constitutional Convention, and the Second Congress wrote it into law in 1792. The law remained on the books for 94 years. Under 1 U.S. Statute 240 the President pro tern of the Senate-a presiding officer chosen by majority vote-was designated to become President if the offices of both the President and Vice President should become vacant, but only "until ... a President shall be elected." The law went on to detail how and when a special election would be called: new electors would be chosen in each state...
...artist were always a man. Thus a search is under way for a set of sexless singular pronouns. A Women's Liberation lexicographer who styles herself Varda One has come up with ve, vis and ver. Others have suggested singularizing they, their and them to te, ter and tern. Someone has invented co, cos, co, which takes a pleasant form in the coself construction, and another added her and him together and got herm, which ve pointed out with reprehensible etymology is "as in hermaphrodite...
...miles each year from British Columbia to Mexico City and back. The ruddy turnstone and bristle-thighed curlew fly more than 2,000 miles nonstop from Alaska to the Hawaiian islands on their way to the South Pacific. The long-distance champion of them all is the Arctic tern, which makes an annual round trip of 22,000 miles...
...After several sleepless nights (and the loss of several former good friends), I humbly present a koala named Coca, a tern named One-Good (his family includes identical twins named Left and Right), a panda named Monium-and a gnu named Watts...
...Bradley Hospital, which is now headed by Dr. Maurice Laufer, an authority on brain disorders in the young. "In many cases," he says, "if you get to the child early, before the secondary emotional problems set in-the family's reaction to the hyperkinesis and the pat tern of failing in school-this is all they need...