Word: contentively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Douglas Lake in northern Michigan, a crew of limnologists (the fresh-water equivalent of oceanographers) in a boat raised core samples from the bottom and tested the oxygen content of the deep. The results, carefully evaluated in the laboratory on shore, were disturbing. At 10,000 years of age, Douglas Lake was past its prime, and slowly dying. In a few more thousand years-a mere split-second in geological time-this haunt of fishermen will be gone, with nothing but a bog to mark its grave...
...this cumulative process, Frey predicts, the oxygen content eventually will fall past the point-three parts oxygen to one million parts water-below which deepwater fish cannot survive. Limnologist Frey has discovered evidence of this in an increasing population of the red "blood" midge, a mosquitolike larva that can get along fine on far less oxygen than its more demanding green and brown brothers. In Douglas Lake, Frey's crew also brought up a few "phantom" midges, near-transparent larvae that can reach adult stage without any oxygen at all for long periods at a time...
...reference to your remarks on President Habib Bourguiba of Tunisia [July 28] "that the West would never look at him with the same confidence again": I feel I ought to put the record straight that if France refuses to quit Bizerte and the U.S. is content enough to only issue statements of regret, then not only Mr. Bourguiba and the Tunisian people but the Afro-Asian countries as a whole will lose confidence in the West...
Eventually, of course, familiarity breeds content-one night at bedtime the little darlings, like many well-trained Disney animals, exchange a nutter of ever-so-cute kisses that will probably make every little girl say ah and every little boy say ugh. Fortunately for the little boys, the cord is soon cut, and the pup runs off to bigger and bloodier adventures involving a vicious wolverine, a great big nasty old grizzly bear, a number of extraordinarily large and healthy timber wolves who have obviously had their teeth shined up by the studio dentist, and a peculiar vertical animal called...
...Comstock Lode, always seemed a wildly improbable place for so determined a dandy as Lucius Beebe. But settle there Beebe did, when he bought a long-defunct weekly, the Territorial Enterprise, in 1952 and resurrected it with an editorial policy of "benevolent backwardness" and "low moral tone, high alcoholic content." Recently, the onetime diarist of New York society, jaded at 58, has been edging away from Virginia City's sagebrush and saloons. Last week his unlikely association with the Old West was at an end. For some $40,000-a cut rate price for a weekly with...