Word: testes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...They support each other in a strange sort of way: One goes through the same stages--you get an idea, and you use your education or your experience to test it," he notes. Both good science and good writing demand imagination, McMahon says, but "the ideas come for nothing, or as a gift." The work comes in testing the ideas: "The ideas themselves aren't worth anything, until they are proved true or false. Just as experiments or theories test scientific ideas, a fictional idea can be proved workable or useless by trying...
...subterranean hospital. During his quest he encounters a veritable circus sideshow of diseased cripples and sexual freaks: the building's assistant director, a character called- "the horse," who cured his impotence through an operation turning him into a kind of centaur; the secretary who was born a test-tube baby, and so lacks any sense of human relationships; & couple who determined to safeguard their marriage by subjecting every conversation to a lie detector test; a preadolescent nymphomaniac who suffers from a disease that reduces her bones to liquid; and her mother, whose skin slowly turned to cotton...
BARC certainly whizzes through its first tongue-teasing test, but dock, trog, pan and slack are still to come. As for Stoppard, this time it is hard to say whether he preys on words or words prey...
Extra operators are on duty in Princeton to answer a flood of phone calls from confused students, Britell said, adding that probably fewer than 1000, "a very small percentage" of those not sent tickets, will be unable to take the test this morning...
Ginn said the foul-up is "the worst thing I've ever seen. It's an absolute disaster." Students taking the test, Ginn said, were faced with the extra burden of anxiety from ETS's late and haphazard process. "It's a terrible inconvenience. I was really unhappy about it, but people will be able to get to the test," he added...