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Word: disemboweling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rigidly monogamous, a pair of ostriches may spend their full 40-year adult life span together. Easily frightened, the birds, which can run at a 60 m.p.h. clip, sometimes cripple themselves dashing headlong into fences. But in the mating season a male ostrich will attack a man, can disembowel him with a single downward kick of his two-toed foot, whose claw is the size of a railroad spike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: The Feather Merchants | 5/7/1951 | See Source »

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