Word: burrowing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Down South there was Winston Churchill, burrowing his toes in Florida's sand. In Washington there was the Pearl Harbor Investigating Committee, its Republican members eager to burrow into what pledges, if any, Franklin Roosevelt and Churchill had exchanged before Dec. 7, 1941. The temptation was too strong for Michigan's Senator Homer Ferguson to resist. Hopefully he moved, "in utter seriousness," that the committee ask the former Prime Minister to be a witness...
Still unused to battle, the Chinese advanced through Myitkyina then were driven out. Their retreat ended short of the airfield, but it gave the Japanese time to burrow for a long, costly struggle...
...Rocky Mountain area, where ticks have been carrying the fever since Indian days, people are not jittery about it. They know that only one tick in 300 is infected, that he must bite and burrow for several hours in order to transmit the infection. But in the East, where the fever has been recognized for only a dozen years, many people are afraid to walk in the woods. Recent trouble spots: 1) the District of Columbia, where three people, all bitten outside the District, have died of the disease; 2) Philadelphia, with five cases, one of whom caught the fever...
...researcher at Kansas State Agricultural College in the early '20s, Dr. Hisaw noticed a puzzling fact about the pocket gopher: the animal, for turning around in its narrow burrow, has a very narrow pelvis, and its compressed pubic bones come together in a bridge (called the symphysis), which leaves an opening much too small for the female to deliver her young. But when a female becomes pregnant, the symphysis somehow dissolves, the opening widens...
...Healesville platypus was born after Curator David Fleay, as an experiment, gave Jill some nesting material. She promptly carried it into her burrow, soon afterward holed up for six days. When Fleay ventured to open the burrow last week, he found a fat baby, about nine weeks old, that uttered puppylike barks. Fleay is afraid to disturb the burrow further, but he thinks there may be another baby inside, because a platypus almost always lays two eggs...