Word: gorillas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then he found a still larger jaw, the biggest ever discovered, which was unmistakably human. It was apparently the most primitive truly human fossil ever discovered. Koenigswald named it Meganthropus palaeojavanicus (Big Man of Ancient Java). Meganthropus seemed to have been about the size of a big male gorilla...
Koenigswald's crowning find dwarfed even Meganthropus. Prowling in South China apothecaries' shops, whose drawers are often full of fossils, he found three astounding fossil teeth. They were six times as big as a modern man's molars, twice as big as a gorilla's. Koenigswald thought they were an ape's. But Weidenreich is sure, from the pattern of their "biting surfaces, that they are definitely human. He has named this man monster, who was certainly much larger than a gorilla, Gigantanthropus...
...lost his mind when a slumming, crisply clad, attractive woman passenger, appalled (and excited) by his looks and language, recoiled and called him "the filthy beast!" At large ashore, he treated society much as an articulate King Kong might, and wound up in the killing embrace of a zoo gorilla. As played by Louis Wolheim on the stage, the Ape thrilled audiences and even critics out of their wits. As played by William Bendix on the screen, he goes through a great many of the same motions without ever getting anywhere or meaning very much...
Honduras is ruled by massive President Tiburcio Carias, whose gorilla-like arms in their prime could break a rifle in two. He started as a revolutionist in 1892, attained the presidency in 1933. Hated by his people, he is on excellent terms with the U.S. fruit companies which dominate the economy of his country. Up to now he has quelled every revolt...
...Damn you, you'll kiss first.' 'I will like hell' She put her arms around me, tightened. Then she kissed me, and I kissed back. 'You were slow enough.' 'I was wondering what you wanted.' 'I wanted you, you big gorilla. Ever since you came in there this morning. . . .' " She discovers Leonard's baritone. And Leonard discovers what a terrible singer his wife...