Word: gorillaed
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...feel cool by watching the seals slither through the blue water. Looking at the monkeys, a zoogoer can conclude that they resemble the family in the apartment downstairs-or a family uncomfortably like his own. Looking at a tiger, he can feel weak, unarmed and humble; at a gorilla, helpless; at an echidna (a mammal that lays eggs), vastly superior. Zoo men have built their exhibits on the proposition that if the proper study of mankind is man, a subsidiary and equally wholesome occupation is the contemplation of the lower animals...
Lincoln Park's star of stars is a gorilla named Bushman. Recently, the American Association of Zoological Parks and Aquariums proclaimed Bushman "the most outstanding and most valuable single animal of its kind in any zoo in the world." Worth about $100,000, Bushman is a magnificent, 520-lb. anthropoid, 6 ft. 2 in. tall, with an arm spread of nearly twelve feet. At 19, he is in his black prime...
Died. Mrs. Ethelreda Lewis, sixtyish, onetime physical-culturist who dreamed of writing a big-seller and did it by chronicling in Trader Horn the fabulous and maybe apocryphal ivory-trading, gorilla-hunting adventures of chance-visitor Alfred Aloysius Smith; of a heart ailment; in Port Alfred, Cape Province, South Africa...
Long Live the Bomb! The Sunday of voting was preceded by a week of bitterness, guerrilla battles and bloodshed. Extreme rightist bands circulated typewritten leaflets: "Long live the atom bomb, Poland's ultimate guarantee of freedom!" The Communists retaliated by displaying large posters showing a gorilla-like German soldier above the caption: "If you want him back, vote no." Other posters showed Winston Churchill squeezing a rubber doll (Mikolajczyk) and making it cry "No!" The Red humorists found other weapons too. On the eve of the referendum, Mikolajczyk announced that 1,213 of his party officials had been arrested...
...first great advantages over the gorilla had been his imagination, and by art he forged that imagination into palpable weapons. Primitive people imagined that if they could get away with pretending to be gorilla-spirits, or human ghosts, or gods (by hiding their real faces behind deliberately carved and painted false ones) they would be able to influence these superior beings and even make use of them...