Word: exceptional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Again & again he yearns for the "lost song" of the extinct Eskimo curlew, "a Mozart of the prairies," and all through the book he develops the idea that men cannot live happily and permanently on the planet except in "ecological" balance with "the wildlife." In many cases, he thinks, this balance can be restored only by drastic reduction of human population (100 million Americans would be about right). According to Vogt, medical men who keep people from dying, upset nature's balance; if more people died there would be more room for mountain lions...
...three seasons, 152-lb. Bronko McGugan has diligently warmed the bench as fifth-string center. At the University of Oklahoma he got none of the footballers' privileges except that of hurling himself against 220-lb. varsity men in practice. He did that so enthusiastically that two hefty teammates once decided to put him in his place: they double-blocked him out of the play, scooped him up and carried him over to the sidelines, where they plopped down on top of him. But Bronko was the first to bounce up. Said he, cheerfully: "Nice block, fellows." When the coaches...
Miss Karasz succeeds in staying serene even when her children call her work "bad modern." Her house is completely bare of wallpaper except for her twelve-year-old son's room, which is papered with one of her designs. "We had to change that paper three times," she recalls, "before he was satisfied...
...occasionally, and persuaded him to wear tweeds and even sport jackets in a variety of colors besides his traditional blue-greys. She got Robert to cut his hair shorter & shorter (he wears a crew cut now). He started eating three meals a day and stopped staying up all night except on rare occasions...
Students who were on language probation could still participate in extra-curricular activities except for team athletics as long as their name wasn't used the Dean told the Council. Consequently, the measure was "unfair to athletics...