Word: acacia
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...Vullier kept all visitors away from the quarters of mother Irumu and father Dolo. He fed them both a special vitamin-rich diet of oat porridge with milk and salt, raw onions, carrots and watercress. Every morning a zoo attendant went to the Bois de Vincennes to pick fresh acacia leaves for the expectant okapis. Twice every day a keeper massaged Irumu's teats so that she would not fly into a rage when her infant first tried to suckle...
Cool autumn winds off the River Plate stirred fitfully through Buenos Aires this week, fluttering bright political posters on the walls, wafting a rich aroma from the stand-up coffee bars, riffling the leaves of the acacia trees. Steamers hooted in the harbor, cattle bawled in the stockyards, streetcars clanged and creaked. In the restaurants, solid citizens, their appetites renewed by the crisp air, tucked napkins into collars and turned with sober and fastidious attention to platter-size steaks and tall bottles of red wine. At night, in the tango palaces, unsmiling couples danced as black-suited singers mourned...
...seconds after taking the glass Hale preferred them, they fired a volley of shots through the window of the hut. Soldiers who heard the shots gave chase, caught two of the Cypriots, found their revolvers on the ground. The third Cypriot was later flushed out of an acacia tree by an R.A.F. helicopter. Paddy Hale was dead, a bullet through his head...
Skillfully compounded in its 2,139 pages are all the officially approved drugs listed in the U.S., British and International Pharmacopoeias, plus the permissible "nonofficial" remedies. It takes 80 pages of index merely to list the items from acacia (the pillroller's gummy old standby) to zygadenus (a plant poisonous to grazing animals...
...Radioactive fallout from the Nevada tests has not been serious, but senseless fallout jitters are getting more so. Last week an Oakland, Calif, householder reported his lawn covered with radioactive ash. Civil-defense technicians came running, found the "ash'' to be a yellow film of acacia pollen...