Word: toad
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Except for its lethal possibilities, his distractedness is charming. His mind is simply oriented to the world he has chosen. Nothing makes him happier than looking at it. In the evening he goes out for a while and comes back with two frogs and a toad, in part to show me their characteristics (one is poisonous), but mainly because he is still a kid who likes to go out and get frogs. In the morning, one of our guides spots a parrot high in a tree, a Fransemadam, so called because it spreads a scarlet frill when excited, like...
...Might have trouble living down couplets like "There's a killer on the road/His brain is burning like a toad...
...Wallflowers headlined the Fall Concert, andperformers for the past few years have includedGeorge Clinton and the P-Funk All Stars, SherylCrow, Indigo Girls, Rusted Root, Toad the WetSprocket, The Samples, and a comedy act by DavidSpade...
Septuplets a miracle? Consider the common marine toad. It lays 35,000 eggs at a time without benefit of Frankensteinian science--just pituitary, brain and gonadal equipment. In sheer numbers, the toad puts us to shame. Isn't it high time we acknowledge that septuplets are the result of scientific technology run amuck? With sheer numbers we relentlessly destroy our planet. JOHN E. SWISHER Key Largo...
This explosion of numbers has, of course, dramatically increased the cachet of living number-free; one of the luxuries of having a house in the English countryside is that, omitting the postal code, you can have an address made up entirely of words (viz. "Mr. Toad, Toad Hall, nr. Rat's Hole, Grahame's Head, Oxfordshire, England"). Yet somehow the figures always catch up with you in the end: villages in the Cotswolds have local phone codes five digits long--as long, in fact, as the numbers themselves. And it must be confessed that one of the only "analog" addresses...