Word: heat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Occasionally, after such "imprinting" or "assimilation," as animal behaviorists call these processes, male animals regard their keeper as a sexual rival. A male lion, for example, usually sits benignly by while the keeper strokes his lioness. But if the keeper shows affection for the lioness while she is in heat, the male may rear up, roar menacingly and act as if he is ready to tear his cage-and his keeper-apart...
...happenstance. Items: Several burned neckties. A smashed mirror. A torn book titled What I Believe. A row of glass bottles, their necks grotesquely melted halfway down inside their bodies. A series of self-destructing slides-on their first showing, they melt and dissolve in the projector's heat...
Fair Harvard's varsity lightweight crew won the final at the Eastern Sprints Saturday without ever having qualified in a heat. We do not contest the quality of that crew; we do, however, contest the decision of the referee placing the boat in the finals in the first place...
...think it grossly unfair and inequitable that a crew which failed to qualify under the rules was allowed to row simply because of "the forceful intervention of heavyweight coach Harry Parker." We ask why have heats in the morning if a crew can qualify for the finals simply on the strength of its reputation. Two false starts in a trial heat would put Bob Hayes out of a 100-yd. race even if there were no doubt that he could win the final running backwards. Why do rules mean something else in crew? Would these rules be bent...
Parker won his heat of the semi-finals on Saturday to reach the ten-boat finals, but was outdistanced in Sunday's race...