Word: holing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ideas. He figured that small paper labels attached to the leading edges of the butterflies' wings close to the body instead of on the surfaces would not interfere as much with their flyability. Little by little Dr. Urquhart learned to make the labels stick by cutting small holes in the wing, folding the label over the hole and gluing the paper to itself rather than to the almost adhesive-proof wing. In 1950 and 1951 he tagged 3,000 butterflies, hopefully set them free, and waited for letters responding to the address tags. He got only one letter-from...
...pretty red bindings, never read a thing. Tough, stubborn, quizzical, Mr. De delighted in pulling such switches; he could sound in turn like a reactionary, a radical, an ignoramus or a bohemian. As an unpredictable intellectual, he singlehandedly derricked the foundering Saturday Review of Literature out of a hole in 1941 with a check for $22,500 (and when Editor Norman Cousins offered to have papers drawn up, replied: "We shook hands, didn't we?"). Later, when Cousins turned up in Dallas to speak at a meeting of the pacifist Society of Friends, local right-wingers tried...
...roadside diner in California one day last week, a green and white 1954 three-hole Buick sedan came to a gentle halt and an elderly couple got out. They were tourists, just passing by. The birdlike little woman chattered warmly to the counterman as she ordered weak tea. Her husband, a tall, stooped, somber man in a sports jacket, remained aloof. His heavy, bald dome wrinkled uneasily; his face drooped; his mouth was firmly shut. He folded and unfolded his big hands, cracking a knuckle occasionally and gazing, with utter absorption, at the garish, commonplace surroundings. His blue-grey eyes...
...President was usually ready for the practice tee with Ed Dudley, thence to the 400-yd. first hole for a tour of the front nine (he walked half the way, rode half in his golf cart). After a locker-room lunch (a medium-size steak and a glass of milk or cup of Sanka), Ike traveled Augusta's back nine, returned briefly to his office, rested and joined Mamie for dinner (a big steak) in the dining room recently added to her Augusta cottage. Some nights the President played bridge-but the lights were nearly always...
...guaranteed Jackson and Miles 5% of the new venture's gross. In two years Jackson and Miles leased 285,000 acres in the Wise County area, brought in 110 gas wells and 57 oil wells. They had a spectacular average of ten productive wells for every dry hole, and have drilled on only one-seventh of their leased land...