Word: dyes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hunters who see an off-color dove this shooting season should report it at once to the nearest wildlife authorities. It will not be a new species, just an ordinary, greyish-brown mourning dove that has been trapped and dipped in a tray of dye...
Last year Florida dyed 157 doves bright yellow. Some of them traveled 450 airline miles in six days, and were reported by baffled hunters as a cross "between doves and canaries." (Florida also dyes squirrels blue, and paints the backsides of deer with dye.) This year five Southern states will dye doves, each state using a different dye. Wildlife experts do not think that the bright colors will expose the doves to their natural enemies. But they hope to find out more about the migration habits of doves by making marked individuals easy to identify...
Gold-Rush Days. "Cump" Sherman's "nervous-sanguine temperament" showed itself early in his Ohio boyhood. He so hated his red hair that he tried to dye it black, and succeeded only in producing an unhealthy shade of green. At 16, looking to his Eastern relatives like "an untamed animal just caught in the Far West," Sherman entered West Point, and at 20 he was graduated, "standing highest in engineering, geology, rhetoric, mental philosophy, and demerits...
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After a month of injecting a rose colored dye into the arms of crew members, the group came up with a process that indicates whether or not a man's adrenal glands are working...