Word: wax
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Democratic Senator Hubert Humphrey jumped up, expounded his own tax views, and was quickly routed when Millikin said: "That is an Icarian syllogism." Humphrey, looking blankly toward the presiding officer: "Mr. President, that is too much for me." Millikin explained: "In other words, the Senator from Minnesota would pin wax wings on his own back in an attempt to fly. However, because of his unsure base, he would land in the ocean." Understanding dawned on Humphrey's face. Asked he: "Is not that just another way of saying I am all wet?" Millikin just smiled...
...Manhattan, the National Antiques Show saw some real action when cops rushed into Madison Square Garden to look for a missing wax statuette of Mamie Eisenhower, which had disappeared from its pedestal in an exhibit depicting the nation's first ladies, present and past...
Mars floats seminaked, wrapped in its thin blue atmosphere as if in a transparent negligee. Yellow clouds, perhaps of dust, drift across it slowly. The white polar icecaps wax and wane with the swing of the Martian seasons, and its surface changes color, as if with seasonal vegetation...
...blue Pacific was a second slab with two Picasso-like figures carved on it. Locally called Los Reyes (The Kings), the stone is still revered as a miracle-working idol. The people of the vicinity make pilgrimages to it to pray for rain, and the carvings show traces of wax from their votive candles. Near it is another carved stone, badly eroded, whose local name is "The Queen...
...besides being a ranking medieval historian, Miss Cam, in her late sixties, has more of an intellectual bounce and a livelier guffaw than most of her younger and graver students. And at an age when most scholars are remembering their earlier inspirations with a tepid chagrin, Miss Cam can wax enthusiastic about a book she read yesterday or a Maitland she read three decades ago. One student in her seminar on medieval documents, dizzied by her rabid interest, could only mutter; "She gets so damn excited over some dusty records...