Word: closed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Free" Greek radio also was stepping up its boasts. Last week it broadcast: "The bell is tolling for the great spring offensive. . . . Now is the time to close our ranks . . . for final victory...
...Bethlehem fight, members of Haganah, the Zionist militia, took refuge in a stone house which the Arabs quickly surrounded. During the night Arabs crept close enough to call promises to the Jews that their lives would be spared if they surrendered. The Jews answered with a Bronx cheer...
...general, rats study men more closely than men study rats. Mr. J. L. Nicholes, rodent specialist, is not only rough on rats (he claims to have killed 25 million), but .he is one man who has had his eye on them. Recently he published a book, Vandals of the Night (Publication Press, Pasadena; $2.50), which contains the hoarded fruit of his long, close scrutiny...
...their six litters a year. They always abandon their young when threatened, but when unmolested show tender regard for their infants' education. No adolescent rat is allowed to leave the nest until old enough to fend for itself. Its mother guides it out, trains it to keep close to walls, teaches it caution by testing all food for poison. -She warns against dogs, cats and traps. Specialist Nicholes believes that rats have some sort of mental telepathy which enables them to communicate knowledge and to broadcast alarms throughout the rat population...
...have specialized in brains. If humans are destroyed because of their own super-smartness, rats may eventually take their place as the earth's dominant species. They are more adaptable than any other animal, and are somewhat like the primitive, generalized mammals that inherited the earth at the close of the age of reptiles...