Word: walrus
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...first heard of the cross eight years ago; it had been stashed away in a Swiss bank vault by an Austrian collector. It was carved from seven pieces of walrus tusk, a distinctly North European material; and from such traits of style as "damp folds"-garments that cling smoothly around the anatomy-Met Associate Curator of Medieval Art Thomas P. F. Hoving deduced that the cross was from late 12th century England...
...time has come (the Walrus said) for TIME to realize that there are other schools in Massachusetts besides the prestige schools. In your People Section [May 15], you stated that Harvard was the first to riot. We regret to inform you that you have been misled. There was a riot staged a week before the Sycamore outburst. This was called by some the worst riot that the state of Massachusetts has ever witnessed. The boys from Babson rallied; Harvard dallied...
...widow had a huge boulder set near his grave. On it, a brass plaque is inscribed with the signature that finished his works. His top price while alive, $10,000, soared ten times higher. Imitators flooded the art market with works that drooled more like a hungry walrus than like Pollock's. Few ever managed like Pollock to puncture what his favorite author Herman Melville called the "pasteboard mask" of visible reality, to pierce beyond the surface into the reasoning soul of men's minds...
...time has come," the walrus said, "to speak of many things, of shoes, and ships, and sealing wax, of cabbages and why the CRIMSON won't publish tomorrow or next Saturday and only three times a week for the two weeks after that, which, if you can't guess by this time you are really going to be in trouble...
...immediately began to stumble. His policy of independence for British possessions in Africa alienated rightist members of his party. Then the U-2 debacle obliterated his hopes for a British inspired Soviet-American detente, and the election of John F. Kennedy encouraged the press to portray him as the walrus-like vestige of a less-enlightened age. Finally, within the last year, the Tories have been embarrassed by the Skybolt fudge and DeGaulle's rebuff of England's application for entrance into the Common Market...