Word: baboons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...famous Army types are present, and all of them are beautiful played. The overworked and woman-ridden First Sergeant wants, desperately to get away from his morning reports and into combat. A baboon-like, whistle-blowing platoon sergeant wants to know the purpose of overnight passes, because "any fool knows it takes more than a coupla hours to make any decent broad." The company commander suffers terribly because his wife, who plays bridge with the adjutant's wife, always knows what is going to happen before he does. The eternal yardbird, the eager second lieutenant, the PX floozie...
...abandoned lime quarry at Makapangsgat, Transvaal, yielded two bones last year to Dart's diggers: part of an occiput (the back part of the skull) and a lower, jaw, from a pygmy moppet who had died while still getting his second teeth. Near by were many baboon skulls, bashed in from above or behind with a club which had a ridged head (the distal end of the humerus...
...protohumans probably hunted baboons by blocking all but one exit of a baboon cave colony, then clubbing the apes from the side as they ran, the gauntlet...
...bear. At a press conference held shortly after he was elected governor he cried: "Huey couldn't have been elected dogcatcher without my help . . ." But these honest outbursts of rage & envy have been infrequent. Earl has aped his brother with the beetle-browed assiduousness of a vaudeville baboon learning to roller-skate; he rubs himself with the legend of Huey's greatness like a voodoo worshiper using "Fast Dice...
...Board. In Ipswich, England, a circus baboon wandered into Mrs. Dorothy Plummer's house, helped herself to oranges and bananas, strayed upstairs into the bathroom where she dabbed on a bit of powder, stopped off for a bounce on the bed, finally was discovered by police downstairs, drinking a bottle of stout...