Word: guinea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...purpose of the test, which was taken by 30 student guinea pigs, is to help determine if such a thing as clairvoyance actually exists, and if it has any correlation with personality...
Among the more bizarre requests which have been received in recent weeks was one from Massachusetts General Hospital. The doctors were in search of a student who would submit to a series of tests after being kept awake for 48 straight hours. The obliging guinea pig pocketed $20 for his sleepless nights. Another freshman allowed his intestinal tract to be explored by means of a series of tubes through his nose and down his throat...
Pets & Stallions. Sniffing the political wind, shrewd, 65-year-old Prime Minister Fraser soft-pedaled the Socialist line, tried to convince the guinea pigs that if they elected the free-enterprisers they would face insecurity, wage cuts, a depression. The opposition National Party promised to keep social security and present wage levels. But it hammered hard at high taxes, controls, and the creeping inefficiency of government...
...campaign got under way, Labor candidates faced dissatisfied audiences that insistently harried them with heckling questions. How much more was Socialism going to cost? Why were government ministers riding in U.S. limousines while ordinary folks couldn't get cars? An Auckland newspaperman called it "the revolt of the guinea pigs...
...performance is all the more sensational when his diet is taken into account. He eats two meals a day-potatoes, corn, quinoa (all first domesticated by Andean Indians) and, very rarely, guinea pig. Andes men seldom get enough to eat; many chew coca leaves to help dull their hunger...