Word: flinging
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...weaning. When the benefit to the child begins to be outweighed by the cost to the mother (reduced ability to bear or care for other offspring), the mother will deny milk, though the offspring will continue to demand more. But parents have an edge. (Says Trivers: "An offspring cannot fling its mother to the ground at will and nurse.") So evolution has provided a defensive weapon for the offspring: psychological warfare. Some fledgling birds will scream with hunger?even when they are reasonably well fed?to induce the parent to bring more food. Dogs withhold tail-wagging to get more...
...asked for her telephone number. For the first time in her life, Marilynn Levy gave a guy she had met in a bar her number. "He called me, and we started seeing each other. No big thing. I was 23 years old; this was my fling. It was hard because I didn't want to take him home and upset my parents, so we would always meet someplace...
...assassinate the man he was interviewing. At the end of their hours together, Castro asked the reporter if he would accept the CIA job. Moyers promised that he would still be a journalist when they met again. "That'll be better," said Castro, who had a brief fling as a muckraking reporter in Havana before the revolution. "Journalism is beautiful...
...landed a great summer job in New York and had a brief fling with a wonderful man. She came back in September full of confidence and blamed her freshman disaster on bad luck and bad timing. But sophomore year wasn't much different at first. She finally latched onto a compulsive government major and although she didn't like him too much, she pretended she did, particularly to herself. She was never very happy with him though and finally decided she couldn't put up with either him or his snoring any longer...
Below Lynch's office, Cauthen was winning the first race with a stretch drive on My Dad's Cross. In the second race, he brought a five-year-old mare called Donizetta up from seventh to third. After that, he won the third with Joanne's Fling and the fourth with Sparkling Topaz. Since December, Master Cauthen, who weighs 92 Ibs., has been winning roughly 30% of his mounts. That is not supposed to happen in horse racing, where a 15% winning average is extraordinary. As far as anyone remembers, nothing like it has happened at a major track before...