Word: holing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Department of Agriculture was planning a dirty trick on an unpleasant insect: the screwworm fly of Texas and Florida. The female flies lay their eggs in open wounds (even scratches or tick bites) in the hides of cattle. From each clutch hatch about 200 maggots, which eat a hole in a cow as big as a lemon. Often other flies attack the same wound. Unless an outside agency (i.e., a cowpoke with anti-fly dressings) comes to the cow's rescue, she may be eaten alive...
...return of George Bueller at defense has helped the '55 squad to fill up the hole left by Jim Moynahan. Freshman first-line forwards Doug Manchester, Ned Bliss, and Scott Cooledge look much better statistically than their Eli counterparts. Defenseman and captain Hig Gould is the outstanding Yale player...
...sheikdom is changing fast. Today, Kuwait merchants can supply anything from diesel generators to bobby pins. The streets crawl with four-hole Buicks churning up the fine dust (Abdullah plans to pave the streets). When K.O.C. came, there were four elementary schools, 600 boy pupils; now there are 31 schools and 7,500 pupils, including girls. The Sheik has built a 400-bed hospital, a women's hospital, dental clinics...
Prairie dogs, burrowing owls and rattlesnakes-so says an old legend-all live happily together in the same holes. For years zoologists have protested that this kind of thing is very unlikely. But many a rural Midwesterner refuses to give up the legend. Farmers testify that they have seen owls and prairie dogs coming out of the same hole. Some maintain stoutly that they have seen an owl go down a hole and a moment later heard the buzzing of a rattler there...
...current Natural History, Ornithologist Lewis Wayne Walker explains the basis for this widespread belief. While he was watching a prairie-dog town, an eagle sailed over. Prairie dogs and an owl dashed for the nearest shelter, and the owl struggled with the prairie dogs to get down a hole first. When the danger had passed, they all reappeared and went to their proper homes. This emergency procedure, Walker thinks, explains the stories of dog-owl happy households. It was harder to explain the rattlesnake part of the legend. He could report no rattlesnake sharing a hole with either a prairie...