Word: lemminger
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The writer, for one, is endlessly baffled and fascinated at the never-ending plunge of the American male, lemming-like, into the sea of matrimony, to sink beneath the waves of department-and specialty-shop bills ... to say nothing of the storms of abuse, vilification, contempt and scorn from his...
The visit was disillusioning. When Ernenek followed the old Eskimo custom of rummaging through his hosts' baggage somebody rapped him sharply across the knuckles. Then somebody else offered him whisky, a drink that made him miserably hot, so he decided that white men were an unfriendly lot at best...
Anyone who wanders down a U.S. country road this winter may be startled at the sight of a great white bird drifting close on five-foot silent wings. The bird's head is as big as a grapefruit, its yellow eyes glitter balefully. But there is no cause for...
Last week, Audubon Society members had completed scores of bird counts which proved that the U.S. will have a booming owl winter. From Arctic Canada had come reports that lemmings, the mouselike rodents which are the favorite food of snowy owls, are critically scarce. In years of plenty, when Arctic...
The snowy owls do no harm, never attack human beings, live almost entirely on rodents. Unaccustomed to civilization, they blunder into odd places. Last week for the first time the owls invaded Washington, perched on Government buildings, and swooped down to feed on the bothersome starlings. Five of the interlopers...