Word: eats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...type, often selected by neither flinthearted nor slipshod methods. "She is the ordinary farm girl who takes her calf to the county fair and gets a blue ribbon, and goes to college, too, and dates her boy friend on the next farm. They go to dances together, and they eat hot dogs and drink Cokes at football games and, on some moonlight night in autumn, while parked for a spell in the lane, he pops the eternal question...
...want to eat...
...observation of even familiar barnyard animals ("the virility of horses is extinguished when their manes are cut"). Armchair hunters will be pleased to read that lions use their long tails to rub out their tracks, that when an elephant pair wishes to have a young one, they first eat of the mandrake (representing Adam and Eve and the tree of knowledge), and that whales will let sailors settle on their backs, but dive from under them if they light campfires...
...effects at first were not marked: it works more slowly than chlorpromazine. But the effect is cumulative. Within a day or two, the women were calmer and quieter. Soon they began to eat better, and gained up to ten pounds in two weeks. Many who had been hostile to the attendants, or had mutely avoided them, sought them out and wanted to talk. They reported vivid but not unpleasant dreams...
...Luzon to the triumphant end. He survived by dodging north from Manila to hide out among the mountain Igorots, who used to be headhunters and were still not entirely reformed when Blackburn met up with them (other tribes in the vicinity were said to drink the blood and eat the hearts and livers of their enemies). One day when his superstitious, G-strung auxiliaries thought a red bird had flown into his jungle headquarters, Blackburn stood by anxiously as witch doctors studied the spleens of sacrificed chickens to see whether a new, unhexed camp would have to be pitched. When...