Word: clue
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...such animals as hamsters and gerbils can be unfortunate, since they sometimes eat their young. To brief her five-year-olds on the principal anatomical discrepancy between boys and girls, Mrs. Daniels conducts a bisexual expedition into the school men's room to give them a clue from the urinals-though purists in sex education frown on any association of elimination with...
...clue be found in the bullpens? Hoyt Wilhelm is the only dependable reliever. Remember Barney Schultz. Larry Sherry, Luis Arroyo, Dick Radatz . . . few firemen are big for more than two years...
...produce any response. Thompson was accustomed to the jungle, but the forest around Cameron Highlands is so thick and its trails so numerous and meandering that local authorities estimated that it would take a full regiment of men working for about a month to comb the area. The only clue came from a cook in a Lutheran-mission bungalow, who said that she had seen Thompson standing on a nearby plateau for about 30 minutes. Then, she reported, "suddenly he disappeared." By week's end, no trace of him had been found...
Accurate Rating. The researchers did not offer any conclusive explanation why some nations performed better than others. But one clue seems to be that students who showed greater interest performed better. U.S. students indicated a more negative attitude toward math than most others: the Japanese were the most positive. "Americans," contends M.I.T.'s curriculum reformer, Dr. Jerrold Zacharias, "have matho-phobia." They are "scared to death" of math, he says, because most teachers are afraid of it themselves and fail "to make it exciting...
...Clue to Prevention. The inflammatory reaction after a sensitizing dose is so strong, Dr. Klein told the Medical Society of the State of New York, that it even shows up cancers too minute to be detected by other means. Thus it makes prevention possible by revealing places where precancerous cell changes have just begun. The basis for this effect is not yet understood, but it is being investigated at other cancer centers where the treatment is being tested...