Word: bellowings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...albopictus (dengue) and Culex pipiens (New Jersey) -and confronted them with a microphone and high-powered amplifier. A surprising variety of noises, resembling bird calls, emerged. Mosquitoes, it turned out, have voices in the middle ranges of human hearing (frequencies of 250 to 1,500 cycles per second). Females bellow; male voices are thin and high-pitched...
...these sounds are made. But they did find it possible to distinguish mating cries from what appeared to be calls of warning or anger. Mosquitoes apparently never talk to themselves, but when two or more are gathered together, they usually break into eager chatter. A female's bellow invariably brings an answering chorus from all the males within hearing...
...that he has a chronic cold. In Ottawa he used to keep a box of cough drops in his desk. One night, with his eyes glued on the papers he was reading, he groped for them in the drawer and a mouse ran up his sleeve. Hearing a startled bellow, the General's military secretary ran in to find him open-mouthed and shaking. Crerar sent the secretary out for more cough drops to replace those which the mouse had contaminated...
Dangling Man is a very carefully written book. As the publishers say, it is a sympathetic and understanding study of a young man struggling with his soul. It might be even more sympathetic if Author Bellow (who is not in the Army) ever seemed to suspect that, as an object of pity, his hero is a pharisaical stinker...
DANGLING MAN - Saul Bellow - Vanguard...