Word: gulled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is not much noise-now and then the throaty roar of an improperly muffled diesel, the grating whine of a hydraulic accumulator and sometimes a distant cheer from students who get a cranky car started. Many entries are over in the repair section. Berkeley's yellow, gull-winged two-seater, with students draped all over its chassis, is splayed open like' a turkey awaiting stuffing."A little overhaul?" asks the car owner. "Overhaul, hell!" snaps a student mechanic. &"We're building it for the first time...
...gull's way and the whale's way where the wind's like a whetted knife...
Monday, March 12: Slavic Society Film: The Great Ballerina, about Galina Ulanova, and The Sea Gull, play by Anton Chekhov. In Russina with English subtitles. 277 Science Center...
...Hunts are not sure why the phenomenon arose and, with other researchers, are currently examining gull hormones for a possible answer. But the likely explanation is simply a shortage of males. If a female cannot attract a permanent mate, but can manage to become impregnated by a mated male, it makes sense to move in with another female who can share duties of protecting and feeding the young. Such behavior, says George Hunt, "would increase the probabilities of raising the young from zero to about 10%." So far the Hunts have "tentative, preliminary evidence" of a male shortage among...
...example is a relatively simple harbor scene with two sailboats, one red, one blue, at the right foreground, but the painting is not just pretty. When Binet paints this kind of subject, one hears a chatter of Edwardian polite conversation. With Malet, though, though, it is the screaming gull one imagines...