Word: gizzards
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sense is that in Somerville...it's not enough to defeat your enemy," says David Nyhan '62, a longtime city resident. "You have to pull his gizzard out and eat his spleen...
...roast his gizzard," Dukakis is saying. "Feed his ears to the geese...
...priest of high concept," says Spielberg. All right, concept: Island. Theme park. Dinosaurs. Adults swallowed whole. Kids in peril. Easy. But who said the author had to give us the history of computers along with it? And chaos theory? Fractal vs. Euclidean geometry? And the workings of a Stegosaurus gizzard? And dna? So much dna it's a wonder Crichton hasn't been called as an expert witness in the O.J. trial...
...These largest of all dinosaurs include Brontosaurus (an out-of-favor name these days: call them Apatosaurus, or risk correction by a knowledgeable six-year-old). They evidently used their spoon-shaped and pencil-shaped teeth to bite off leaves and twigs, relying, like many modern birds, on gizzard stones to do the actual chewing. Horned dinosaurs like Triceratops, which lived toward the end of the dinosaur era, in the late Cretaceous, had very inefficient jaws. "Their teeth were arranged in a vertical plane, which is very unusual," explains University of Pennsylvania paleontologist Peter Dodson. "That essentially means they were...