Word: craning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shrinking spaces between the nation's cities, such adaptable species of wildlife as the white-tailed deer and the meadow lark manage to thrive and multiply. Not so the whooping crane, tallest (5 ft.) of North American birds. A stately, aloof marsh dweller with white plumage, black wing tips, a cap of bare red skin atop its head and a trumpetlike cry that can be heard two miles away, the whooping crane (Grus Americana) has become for U.S. conservationists, naturalists and nature lovers a symbol of their fight to save rare species from extinction...
...last count there were exactly 27 whooping cranes left in the world: one at the San Antonio zoo, two at the New Orleans zoo and 24 at the Aransas National Wildlife Refuge on Texas' Gulf Coast. If the cranes would just stay at safe, secluded Aransas, they might increase-though not very fast, since whooping crane couples go steady for a few years before mating. But every April the flock flies off to breeding grounds near Canada's Great Slave Lake-all except one loner that, for reasons that baffle ornithologists (and possibly other whooping cranes), stayed...
...Cambridge City Council also expressed its appreciation of the team and gave special mention to Cleary, a Cambridge resident. The following resolution, introduced by Councillor Crane, was passed at yesterday's meeting...
Councilor Edward M. Crane '38 called Vellucci's motion "unconstitutional" and said it impaired the right of contract. DeGuglielmo then invoked his "charter-right," which permits any councilor to postpone discussion of a question until the next meeting...
...John Kennedy 3L, and Daniel J. O'Hearn 3L, of the Kaplan Club, were attorneys for the appellant, "Local 688, Electrical Workers Progressive Society," while Mark Crane 3L and Samuel V. Goekjian 3L of Casner Law represented the defendant, the "Ames Electrical Supply...