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Word: pachyderm (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1991-1991
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...Pacific before being picked up by a submarine. If, as Bush later claimed, he took time "to talk to God" after his rescue, crew members of the U.S.S. Finback didn't notice: what they most remember about the young man they nicknamed "Elephant" was his thunderous imitation of a pachyderm on a mad stampede...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The White House: In a Sentimental Mood | 6/17/1991 | See Source »

...have been a limerick; it concerned an elephant in Sumatra that tried to, well, connect with its grandmother. The naked woman in the foreground foreshadows the title of Ernst's great collage-narrative of 1929, La Femme 100 Tetes, or The Hundred- Headless Woman. She languidly beckons the dumb pachyderm to further erotic fiascoes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ART: The Rebel Dreams of Oedipus Max | 4/22/1991 | See Source »

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