Word: chews
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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According to another theory, only "neurotic" squirrels gnaw. One researcher cooped up a group of squirrels in cages, provided them with all kinds and sizes of cable to chew on (0.5 in. proved most popular). He concluded that young, emotionally unstable squirrels and pregnant squirrels undergoing a change in their nervous systems are the most destructive gnawers. It was not as easy to find a solution, however. Emotionally upset squirrels, the engineers found, do not insist on lead sheaths; they are just as eager to chew on cables wrapped with copper screening or glass tape...
...shock devices, steel-tape armor, 24-in. barriers of galvanized iron on telephone poles. None of these measures have worked. Several years ago, a researcher thought he had the answer in a brand-new repellent made of chlorinated hydrocarbon, found that its only effect was to make the squirrels chew treated cables and ignore the untreated ones. Lethal measures, e.g., coating the cables with paint containing ground glass, were blocked by protests from the A.S.P.C.A...
...most stirring rallies in Big Ten football history unfolded on the field, a big, shaggy man walked stolidly back and forth in front of the Michigan bench. Under similar pressures, other big-time coaches kick water buckets, curse officials, bully their assistants, and alternately cheer and chew out their players. Michigan's Benjamin Oosterbaan, 49, seems as imperturbable as a 50-yard stripe. But his men know that, inside, he suffers. Says one: "He looks like a character out of a Russian novel...
...Hitler really fly into towering rages and chew up rugs? Linge was asked. "I can only laugh at that," said he. "Hitler always had himself in complete control." Why, then, had he killed himself? "Because," said Hitler's valet, "everything was hopeless...
Congregationalist Chamberlain gets on well with her Anglican husband. "All it means is that we have two sermons to chew over on Sundays, instead of one," she says. "And of course we have some terrific arguments. My husband quite often starts off, 'Call yourself a minister?' Of course he considers that anyone who hasn't been 'properly' ordained, with the laying on of hands, has not really been ordained. Fortunately, we both like to argue . . . But sometimes he's rude about extempore prayers, or he'll say, 'Call yourself a church...