Word: hippopotamus
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While not the life of a party, Hillary tends to get into the spirit of an evening. She's the one to "try the new meal -- hippopotamus stew -- or order the blue drink," says television producer Linda Bloodworth-Thomason. Most socializing is done at home, in the kitchen and breakfast room and around the piano. (All three Clintons play the instrument, says Hillary, "but none of us is what you'd call good.") They play Pictionary, Scrabble and a cutthroat card game called Hungarian Rummy...
...between nature and technology. And a unique way to dramatize that concept, he firmly believes, is to achieve another of his goals: animal-powered flight. What kind of animal? MacCready has already drawn up some formulas and tentative contest rules that would permit use of any creature from a hippopotamus to a goldfish. He has even considered using a hissing cockroach. ("It has a little longer power cycle than the ordinary roach.") But he may settle for a dog. "There are already cases of dogs that love to join their masters in hang gliders," he muses, leaning back and staring...
...first half of the performance ended with the Flanders and Swann song "The Hippopotamus," with the audience singing along on the chorus of "Mud, mud, glorious...
...Communist takeover in his country. The day will come when, thanks to the Sandinistas, it will be easier to find a giraffe, a hippopotamus or an elephant here than a member of the Costa Rican Communist Party...
...inexplicable wooden signs on the walls that they forgot their other jokes. These strange-looking notices made vague references to theatricals, agents, children and pets which none of the agents, children or pets around me could understand. (There were no theatricals around to be consulted, although a hippopotamus hiding under an ash tray was also perplexed...