Word: bearing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...called Baked Macedoine wrote that its U.S. ingredients were hardly as exciting as those she had been used to in Alaska where "I cooked many wonderful meals of moose, caribou, wild sheep and goat, halibut and salmon fresh from the ocean, grayling and trout from the clear, cold rivers. Bear has even been on my menu...
Things hadn't been that way in the great Knute Rockne's day. Rockne, like Leahy, had walloped the daylights out of the opposition. But somehow he also made them like it, or at least bear it. When once asked who he thought was the greatest football coach, Rockne winked and said: "Modesty forbids . . but I'll tell you who the two greatest coaches are and one of them is . . ." To win consistently and get away with it nowadays requires the talent of a diplomat as well as that of a coach. Leahy...
...spring, a young man's fancy; in the fall, woolly bear caterpillars have a brown band in their midriffs. If the brown band is wide, it will be a mild winter. If the brown band is narrow, the winter will be a freezeroo. So countrymen in the northeastern states have believed...
...year ago, Dr. C. Howard Curran, curator of insects and spiders at New York's American Museum of Natural History, took a look at the woolly bear caterpillars and noted that they all had narrow bands. Sure enough, along came last winter's big snow and ice storms. Curran decided to take another look at woolly bears...
Last week, on slopes above the Hudson River, Curran and a pack of entomologists hunted woolly bear caterpillars (larvae of a tiger moth, Isia Isabella) and measured their waistbands. In 15 specimens, they averaged five and one-third brown segments. Last year, said Curran, they averaged less than three. Does that mean a milder winter ahead...