Word: toads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Clammy Toad. Sister Ursula joins her order in her late teens, is assigned to a convent in Belgium. Like Sister Luke of The Nun's Story, she suffers the shock of initiation: an austere cell so cold that the holy-water stoup is sometimes frozen; the regimen of the "custody of the eyes," i.e., never letting them stray from a modest downward glance; the "instruments of penance," ranging from a scourging cord to metal knee and elbow bracelets studded with blunt-tipped nails. As early as her fifth day, Sister Ursula feels "a dreadful sick sensation as though...
...River; membek fellows stay at home with the girls, which makes them even membeker. The girls like their lovers to be tough, but only because it's more fun tempting them to become membek. And anyone who succumbs to such temptation is liable to be turned into a toad after death. It's all a big problem, the Urubus assured Anthropologist Francis Huxley, who lived with them for several months, and some fellows end up quite impotent trying to figure out a compromise...
...expensively coiffured in long, wavy styles that range from the "D.A." (for Duck's Arse) to the "TV Roll" and the "Tony Curtis." Their jargon is a mixture of Cockney rhyming slang and U.S. jive talk in which a road is a "frog" (from the phrase frog-and-toad, which rhymes with road), a suit is a "whistle" (from whistle-and-flute), and a girl is a "bird...
Donning their plexiglass slippers, the Children's Theatre players dance to an exquisite modern adaptation of Cinderella. This version is modern, to say the least, with such lines as, "Hit the road, toad," and "Wise-guy, eh?" It seems to do Cinderella no harm, however, for children in the audience aren't bothered by the dialogue, which is a clever compound of parental cliches...
...accuracy. Their method follows the same principle as other tests, but with some significant differences: 1) they have developed a simplified technique of getting a stronger, faster-acting hormone preparation by using a chemical called kaolinalumina, which concentrates it from the urine; 2) they use a species of toad (Bufo americanus) as the test animal, because it is cheaper than other animals used and reacts quickly. Performed as early as ten days after suspected conception, the new test produces the reaction in as little as two hours...