Word: camelizing
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...movie ends in the zoo. Elgin sits facing a rather forlorn-looking camel while snowflakes fall around them both. The old zookeeper walks by and Elgin asks him if it snows in the camel's natural habitat. "No," the zookeeper says, "But don't worry about it. He'll get used to it. He'll adapt...
Next summer, however, Leakey will lead a team to search south of Lake Turkana at a site called Suguta. The region is roadless, and he will have to go in, as in the old days, by donkey and camel. The discomforts may be worth it; a geological survey of the area shows fossil-bearing sediments between 5 million and 9 million years old, laid down in a period that has so far yielded few clues about the ascent...
...want to be in the circus," says Actress Betty White, who gets her wish in an upcoming Circus of Stars. White's ringmates in the December CBS-TV special will include Actors Peter Fonda and Richard Roundtree and Jack Ford. White is teamed up with a camel. "Working with animals is a lot easier than working with some actors," she said after the taping. Did she feel upstaged? "Heavens no. I'd much rather see an animal act up there than some tired old broad...
Your Newfoundland dog article [Sept. 5] failed to mention the many disadvantages of owning a Newf. They slink and often have the breath of a camel; demand to sit in the front seat of an automobile, often requesting to drive; wake their owners in the middle of the night with loud snoring and blowing bubbles in the toilet bowl; are first to their master's bed and never give up the pillow; and when you take them down to the local tavern for a beer, they drool in their Budweiser...
...proverbial "straw that broke the camel's back" was Federal District Court Judge W. Arthur Garrity's busing order of 1973. From the start the vast majority of white Bostonians, and many blacks as well, were opposed to the plan. Others were ambivalent. Very few were in favor. We all asked the same question...