Word: blanket
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dark corner in a large cage in a Pittsburgh zoo sits Jambo. He huddles beneath a blanket with only his eyes staring glumly out to greet the world. His eyes are deep brown with dark rings beneath them. His entire appearance is extraordinarily melancholy--especially for a gorilla from Central Africa. But Jambo is not only melancholy and underweight--he is neurotic...
...when the doctors considered Jambo's personality--not to mention his hopeful glances from beneath a blanket--they should have realized that the trouble was more basic than rejection by his cage keeper. What Jambo needs, and what the doctors should import, is a brown, furry, Central African, Swahili-captured, female gorilla...
...have been set up, the majority of settlers have built on an extra room at their own expense and are cultivating gardens among the rocks. Says a 20-year-old Iraqi girl who married on her arrival three years ago: "We hadn't even money to buy a blanket to cover us on our wedding night. We couldn't speak Hebrew. We were frightened of everyone who tried to help us. Today we have a two-room apartment, a dining-room table with four chairs, a wardrobe with three doors, an icebox, a radio, two babies, two cots...
...blanket of sub-zero weather shrouded New England last night with the mercury falling into the minus column across the northern sections...
...weather Bureau at Boston said the cold blanket can be expected to remain over New England at least through Thursday...