Word: layings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nations troops was on his tail. For a moment, it looked as if the U.N. were in hot pursuit of its old foe. But no! To the astonishment of bug-eyed natives along the way, Moise was actually leading the blue helmets, urging his own tattered Katangese gendarmes to lay down their arms so the U.N. could re-open vital rail and road links...
...attraction, so they can be lured easily into baited traps. But this simple scheme does not satisfy the anti-cockroach forces. The females will not be affected, they point out, and a few males attracted to them in the age-old way will work overtime to make them lay fertile eggs...
Once the females have mated, they lose all their scented appeal. They lay about 14 eggs per week for the rest of their lives while the males take no further notice of them. But each female that has mated with a sterilized male lays only infertile eggs. If most of the males in a given locality have been sterilized, then most of the females will have no living offspring, and the cockroach population will plunge toward zero. The same unsporting trick, say the Beltsville scientists, should work on other insects that use sex perfumes, including bollworms, army worms and corn...
...Japanese primogeniture. Yamasaki spent the first years of his life in a shabby wooden tenement whose foundation was so eroded that the house had a tilt. The Japanese-American community stayed within itself in those days, and young Yamasaki got only occasional hints of the degree of discrimination that lay beyond. Once, he remembers, his mother came home in tears after a cruel experience on a bus: she had taken a seat next
Taking the ball to the left of the keyhole Scully streaked down the middle and twisted in an underhand lay-up. Madden scored again for Dartmouth and Vic Mair hit two foul shots to bring Dartmouth within two of the lead. By this time the small but lively reading period crowd was yelling at the referee when he tied his shoelace--a sure sign of health...