Word: crossbreeding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Migraine and Piety. To contemporaries-and to later observers, Richelieu himself was equally hard to comprehend. A crossbreed of the middle-class and the impoverished country gentry, he had social ambitions and possessed extraordinary charm. Yet he was without humor. He could play the guitar. He kept 14 cats. He...
More of the same can be expected for the daily, which has lost a lot of its old thunder, although circulation has increased 10% in the five months since it began putting news instead of agony ads on Page One. Hamilton plans to "crossbreed" his daily and Sunday staffs into...
Apiculturist Warwick Kerr figured he had some perfectly good reasons for bringing 20 African queen bees into his native Brazil nine years ago. Though it is known to be ferocious, the African bee produces 30% more honey than either the Italian or German bee that long dominated Brazilian beekeeping: it...
Last week, at the National Western Stock Show and Rodeo in Denver, Wegner never even got to count one. The luck of the draw gave him Bull No. 89, a cream-colored crossbreed that had never been successfully ridden. Grasping the rails of the chute, Wegner gingerly eased himself onto...
"One reason jazz is not salable," says Mann, "is because the musicians and audiences stopped enjoying themselves. People used to swing and be happy in a club Now they must come out emotionally destroyed. We play simple, enjoyable music. My audience doesn't know it's supposed to...