Word: hens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mother Hen. For years Fraser's trophy case was stocked with little more than a few mugs and a kimono from Japan, but in 1959, when the last of his Aussie rivals turned pro, he finally came into...
...fowl; all three can be spread by feathers from infected birds. Dr. Lind found more than germs inside old hospital pillows. Items that turned up amid the feathers: stones, corn, glass, metal strips, nails, a broken thermometer, false teeth, wax crayons, a pencil, a chocolate bar, a chicken neck, hen manure, a dead sparrow, a rat skull and a whole mouse. Even if feathers prove to be poor disease carriers, concluded Lind dryly, "we should consider that the renovation of old feather pillows is of importance from the standpoint of general good housekeeping and psychological effect...
...sell radios, Branched into broadcasting to push his product and in 1934, for $200 down and $200 a month, bought a moribund weekly called the Timmins Press. One of the unfledged publisher's first moves was to send dime to each of 100 small U.S. dailies, hen the copies came in, Thomson read hem and reached his conclusion: "Jeez, here's nothing in them we can't do." The Timmins Press went daily...
Best of Both. Equally nimble, Ghana's President Kwame Nkrumah raced around Manhattan shaking black hands and white hands at every opportunity. Casting himself in the role of mother hen to the 15 newly emerged African states, U.S.-educated Nkrumah strode from his suite in the Waldorf-Astoria alternately dressed in Western business suits and Ghanaian ceremonial robes, and seemed to promise to fellow Africans the best of both worlds...
...pencil tops, and a brown bat swings malevolently from the ceiling, suspended by a nearly invisible wire. All look amazingly lifelike, preserved by Meryman's "freeze-dry" process and apparently able to stay in good condition indefinitely. The fox was shot by Meryman when it invaded his hen house. "He accounted for 27 hens," says Meryman, "before I freeze-dried him." The other specimens were collected along the shoulders of busy Southern highways. Says Meryman: "I'm always looking for well-preserved traffic casualties...