Word: aped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...condemned by the unknowing as dogmatic and opinionated?which he could be?his was generally the most open and inquiring of minds. Good journalists, he said, are "vessels of truth." He tended on the whole to take an optimistic view of history. Quoting Disraeli's proposition, "Is man an ape or an angel?", he plumped, with Disraeli, for the angels' side...
Furthermore, in Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker, "we have the hump of sexual guilt he carries on his back (he is a different porter now), a hint of the ape, and more than a hint of the insect." To the straightforward reader, it may appear that the explanation only compounds the problem, especially when Burgess points out that the French for "earwig" is perce-oreille, which "can be Hibernicized into Persse O'Reilly," a name appropriate to H. C. Earwicker's dream career as an Irish patriot. His initials also mean "Here Comes Everybody" (turning the sleeper into Everyman...
...Navy after his graduation (aeronautical engineering) from Purdue in 1957, logged more than 1,800 hours flying time in jets before becoming an astronaut in 1963. During training for the Apollo mission, the boyishly handsome Chaffee came to be especially close to Grissom, at times even seemed to ape some of Gus's mannerisms. Though he prudently stayed in the shadow of his more experienced crewmates, Chaffee shared their burning ambition to land on the moon; in the den of his Houston home hangs a map of the lunar landscape. Last summer, after watching a spectacular launching...
...ignored bone fragments, Leakey concluded that their characteristics were definitely more manlike than apelike, and reclassified them as Kenyapithecus africanus. Unlike the rectangular, one-rooted molars of apelike creatures, for example, the Kenyapithecus' molars were triangular and had two roots. Its incisors were in line with its canines; ape incisors protrude in front of the canines. Kenyapithecus' chin projected slightly to the front of its teeth; an ape's chin recedes behind its teeth. To Leakey, the proof is undeniable: "Man's separation from his closest cousins-the apes-is now carried back more than...
After 23 days, the second monkey was as placid and healthy as ever, but the decision maker died-of ulcers. The Morrises charitably refrain from pointing out the obvious moral, which is not that man's nearest neighbor is smart enough to get ulcers, but that the ape's nearest neighbor is dumb enough to inflict them...