Word: infant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Vincennes Zoo, Paris, let it be known last week that Ebola, a female infant okapi-a rare, sawed-off semigi-raffe from the Belgian Congo rain forest -had lived three weeks so far without untoward incident. This is big zoo news; other okapis have been born in captivity, but Ebola is the first to survive so long. Assistant Director Paul Vullier explains that female okapis suffer in captivity from "deviation of maternal instinct." If they do not starve their infants by refusing to let them suckle, they trample them to death. And what pushes them into their fiercest outbursts...
...milk and salt, raw onions, carrots and watercress. Every morning a zoo attendant went to the Bois de Vincennes to pick fresh acacia leaves for the expectant okapis. Twice every day a keeper massaged Irumu's teats so that she would not fly into a rage when her infant first tried to suckle...
Snow-White. Benoit and Leroy named their new ducks "Blanche-neige" (snow-white) and touched off a France-wide sensation by telling about them. The French press has been full of praise, speculation and wonderment, not unmixed with uneasiness. Many were the suggestions for treating infant humans with human DNA. Neither of the partners has any such intention. "It is inadmissible," says Professor Benoit, "to talk about experimenting on men at this time. We are only at the very beginning." Father Leroy sounds somewhat worried, but he finds refuge in the reasoning used by the makers of the first atomic...
Death Valley Days. U.S. Borax is only a corporate infant-formed last year by the merger of oldtimers Pacific Coast Borax Co. and U.S. Potash Co. But it has close to a natural monopoly, holds 63% of the free world's deposits, including the only big deposit of sodium borate ore (at Boron), the cheapest and easiest type of the mineral to mine and process. The company's ancestry is the story of borax mining in the U.S. The discovery of borax in a California hot spring in 1856 set off feverish prospecting and mining that eventually made...
That afternoon, to savor the exotic culture of the back-country people, the Nixons drove 20 miles from Accra to the hill town of Aburi. The colorfully dressed tribesmen assigned Nixon a mahogany throne. Pat, dandling a native infant on her knee, sat beside him on a smaller throne, watching as the tribal drums thrummed and the natives danced their age-old rituals...