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Word: hunts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...jungled Fishhook sanctuary last week, "but we still haven't got the bird." The elusive bird is COSVN, the Communists' celebrated Central Office for South Viet Nam, and it has flown the coop every time the allies have gotten close. Pressed for the latest news on the hunt, an Administration aide wryly told reporters: "We found something that looks like this, but we aren't sure what it is." Then, deadpan, he picked up a writing pad and sketched a large five-sided building that strikingly resembled the Pentagon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Just How Important Are Those Caches? | 6/1/1970 | See Source »

...standard explanation for the development of society holds that families arose only after men consented to share the fruits of the hunt with women. DeVore believes the truth may be the opposite-that families developed when women agreed to share their substantial stores of nuts and berries with...

Author: By Paul G. Kleinman, | Title: Science Museum Awards DeVore A $5000 Prize | 5/20/1970 | See Source »

...shoot man, little bird. The hunt has not opened yet. In your shade below is silence. So painful is the unknown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union: A Depot of Metaphors | 5/18/1970 | See Source »

...Hunt Hall yesterday afternoon, the faculty and students of the Graduate School of Design voted support for the demands endorsed by Monday's mass meeting. They adopted Dean May's proposal that exams and other academic work may be deferred until autumn...

Author: By Bruce E. Johnson, | Title: Graduate Schools Vote to Strike; Faculties Resolve Exam Policies | 5/6/1970 | See Source »

...addition to providing fertilizer, guano bats are exceptional exterminators. It has been estimated that Texas guanos alone consume 6,600 tons of insects each year. Although a few bat varieties hunt by sight and smell, most rely on echo location, a natural sonar system. The bat emits high-frequency beeps that rebound when they strike any object, allowing the animal's receiver system to compute direction, velocity and distance instantly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Out of the Belfry | 5/4/1970 | See Source »

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