Word: changing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eleven years ago, Chang was bundled into the Zurich zoo's elephant pit, a fat, ludicrous baby only ten months old. He had been bought as the future mate for Mandjullah, an older female. Rapidly he became the zoo's star attraction and the pride of his keeper, Hans Rietmann. When Mandjullah took the kids for a ride on her back, Chang trundled awkwardly behind, amiably accepting peanuts. Sometimes he would even snuggle his trunk into a pocket to pluck out a piece of candy...
...Chang had some elephantine whims. He showered his audience with water and occasionally picked up his empty tub and flung that, too. His keeper and his fans laughed and decided that Chang was an elephant with imagination...
...Chang brusquely snatched a doll from the arms of a little girl. For this he was banished to his pit. Then on a stormy November morning three years ago, zoo keepers saw blood on the floor of the pit. In Chang's straw bed they found a bloodied human hand...
...horrified keepers and police learned the unbelievable truth. Chang had devoured a young woman; he had swallowed her clothes, her hat, and even her large handbag...
...some polling places children presented the proxies of their parents, servants those of their masters. Premier Chang Chun himself had to scold the curious who pressed around to watch him write his choice: "This isn't right. We must vote in secret." But, as the Premier added, it was "the first time." Chinese hoped for improvement. Said scholarly, bespectacled Tseng Chi, head of the Chinese Youth Party: "Perhaps six years from now, at the next general election, we'll know more...