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Word: beese (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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To prove this theory, they put toads in cages and offered them live dragonflies, bumblebees and robber flies. Inexperienced toads accepted all three alike, but toads that grabbed the bees got stung. Once stung, they would eat neither bumblebees nor robber flies, though the flies, in spite of their appearance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Insect Masquerade | 3/30/1962 | See Source »

In the back room of a suite in a Park Avenue office building stands a figure that looks just like Jacqueline Kennedy. More precisely, it looks like Jackie only in the sense that whatever fits the figure also fits the wife of the President of the U.S. It is Jackie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: Sophie & Nona | 3/23/1962 | See Source »

"'But listen,' I said in an urgent undertone, trying not to alarm the rest of the group. 'What prevents them from, say, setting fire to this tree and smoking us out like a nest of bees?'

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: The Literary Satirist is Still Around | 2/24/1962 | See Source »

Domesticity sets in. A cave is found and furnished, and the men go out to hunt. Pretty soon they find something that pretty well fills the pot-a chicken 20 ft. tall. But next day they have trouble with bugs-bees as big as rhinos. And that same afternoon the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mysterious Island | 1/12/1962 | See Source »

In essence, the Russians shun this-is-fun in favor of solid content. In his first reader, the Russian tot is blatantly propagandized, notably in a eulogy of Lenin's love for children. He is urged to keep clean, study hard, tell the truth, feed birds in winter, help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: What Ivan Reads | 11/17/1961 | See Source »

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