Word: craning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...approached, the curtains parted in the first-story window, and an old woman who looked like Ichabod Crane warbled, "He's in here! He's in here...
...subway car last December when Goetz, 37, opened fire on four teenagers he claims had hassled him and hustled him for money. A number of other passengers testified before the original grand jury, which indicted Goetz only for illegal possession of a handgun. Acting State Supreme Court Justice Stephen Crane ruled that Morgenthau's application for a rehearing was compelling enough to warrant asking another grand jury to consider charges of attempted murder and assault...
...China is acknowledging that the best hope for these reclusive and mysterious creatures may lie in the unlikely locale of Baraboo, Wis. That is the site of the International Crane Foundation, operated by Ornithologist George Archibald, 38, the world's leading authority on cranes, who has had extraordinary success breeding the birds in captivity. Last week, in the company of a Chinese official, a pair of 4 1/2-ft.-tall black-necks arrived at Archibald's headquarters to further test his matchmaking skills. Says Archibald of the female Lan-lan (which means flower) and the male Yang-yang (sun): "They...
Archibald's attentions are now focused solely on the newest arrivals to Baraboo, and if anybody can ignite their ardor, he can. As a kind of Don Juan of the Audubon set, he won fame in 1978 for tempting a female whooping crane to ovulate by imitating the elaborate courtship dances of the male. His installation has housed representatives of all 15 species of crane and has successfully overseen the hatching of rare chicks since...
...Cambridge Tab quoted Crane, a member of the Association for a Better Cambridge--a loosely defined moderate, pro-reform group as saying that if he does "get a slate together, the basic thing we will be most committed to will be the streamlining of operations at the council as well as instilling some more businesslike behavior at the council...we will want to make it less like a circus...