Word: dolphin
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...operational deployment by late 1960. Premature burnout of the second stage cut 100 miles from the missile's programed flight, but the first complete test of the system's complex navigational, guidance and fire-control equinment was a success. Fort night ago, the Navy revealed, a dummy ("Dolphin") missile was ejected successfully by the submerged atomic sub George Washington, which will attempt an underwater, null Polaris shot in July...
...Dolphin Rampant. When the Roman legions sailed from Britain, the barbarians who took over had no use for the spacious bathhouses. For centuries Europe remained very nearly dedicated to the proposition that dirtiness is next to godliness. One medieval writer complained about the effeminacy of the Danes, who "used to comb their hair every day, bathed every Saturday and used many other such frivolous means of setting off the beauty of their persons." As late as the 18th century, when residents of Edinburgh threw slops from fifth-floor bedchambers with the cry "Gardy-loo!" (from the French gardez...
Eventually, the apparatus was available in the form of a dolphin (rampant), a lion (couchant), or embellished with the "blue magnolia design." ^ In 1900 the Syphonic Closet of the Century was announced. It was clean and decent, but it missed the pungent grandeur of the commode from which Louis XIV announced his forthcoming marriage to Mme. de Maintenon. And it cannot have given its users the satisfaction of the chamber pot, or jerry, available to Britons around 1800, whose interior was limned with a portrait of Napoleon...
...Dolphin Talk...
After reading about dolphins in your Jan 4 issue, my students' and my own doubts about Pliny the Elder's story of the tame dolphin* that carried a boy around and out to sea and back. and romped and gamboled with other boys in the waves, should vanish. Now we can all believe in flying saucers...