Word: fowl
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fish, flesh, or fowl, commend all summer long...
...cultural boundaries most successfully if he is standing on the solid ground of self-knowledge and self-respect. The man who stands on the shaky and uncertain ground of self-rejection and martyrdom, the man who is not a fish and yet is trying desperately not to be a fowl, has no footing from which to reach across any boundaries...
...extracted virtually intact from human sperm for the first time by Doctors Ellen Borenfreund and Aaron Bendich. The "almost impossible" feat promises to shed new light on the transmission of hereditary traits in mammals and on the origin of genetic abnormalities. After experiments with the sperm of fish and fowl, rabbits and bulls, the Manhattan researchers carefully washed the human sperm to rid it of enzymes, then treated the DNA tough protein topcoat with a chemical that freed the 400,000 chainlike DNA molecules for examination...
...dozen newsmen regularly covering the Congo, none has given his competitors more trouble than affable Wilfred Lazarus, 35, correspondent for the Press Trust of India. In a land where rumors flock like jungle fowl, communications are primitive and authorities both unreliable and distressingly perishable, Willie Lazarus regularly managed to uncover stories so breathtaking as to bring reporters for British and American wire services reproachful "callbacks" from their home offices...
...almost to the point of falling, and her hands are pressed together as in prayer. Behind her a house looms at the same tentative angle, and a tiny goat trots on her head. Almost 40 years later, The Eiffel Tower Lovers are seated on the back of a large fowl that holds a bouquet of flowers as it approaches the tower with a blazing red sun in the background. The man is dressed, the girl naked. Between these two pictures are evidences of a fantastic and fascinating artistic vision not always easy to define but always a joy to divine...