Word: eats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Deep in the rain forests of New Guinea, native boys must undergo a kind of tribal bar mitzvah in which reeds are forced up their noses and down their throats to bleed out the spirits of their mothers. Some tribal warriors still eat a slice of a dead victim's liver to absorb his magic. Barely out of the Stone Age, this primitive land, composed of Australian Papua and the United Nations trust territory of Northeast New Guinea, was last week nevertheless preparing itself for self-government...
Gland Trouble. When animals are overcrowded, says Hoagland, their increase often slows down even when they have plenty of food. Horrible things happen among jammed-up flour beetles. Females destroy their eggs; they turn cannibalistic and eat one another. Males lose interest in females, and though plenty of flour is left for food, the beetle population reaches a statistical plateau...
Meanwhile, back in the ring, Cassius was extolling his greatness to a still disbelieving world. "Eat your words," Clay howled at the shaken sportswriters. "Liston is in the hospital and here I am, still pretty as can be. That big bear was an amateur. He was scared of me. He couldn't even hit me when I was half blind. If he wants to fight me he will have to work his way up. I can beat any fighter in the world. I am the greatest. I am the prettiest...
...Gill, Master of Leverett House, said last night. "We hope to make it as pleasant and quiet as possible to give him a chance to work on his book." Gill added that he had made the House dining hall facilities available to Sorensen. Whether or not Sorensen will eat there depends, Gill said, on his schedule...
...Sculls, in most respects a normal, unpretentious, upper middle-class American family, live with Pop, sleep with it, eat with it, relax with it, and love it. They are not, however, bitter cultural rebels, ready to dynamite the Corinthian columns of the Met. At least Met Director James Rorimer does not think so. He enjoys going to the Sculls' for dinner and finding out how avant a garde...