Word: lemur
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...jail cell in Poona last week squatted India's most famous man, the wizened little brown man with the big-eared, big-eyed face of a bespectacled lemur: the Mahatma Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. For four months he had been out of the news, drinking goat's milk, spinning cotton on his charkha, brooding as ever on the woes of India's Pariah Untouchables. Inside the bare parched skull "a tempest was raging." Finally, "the voice became insistent and said, 'Why don't you do it?' I resisted but in vain.'' Last week...
...Turnbull, whose querulous existence up to that point had been in potting jam and waiting for her husband to speak at table, was deprived of her jam-pots and suffered to board at her doctor-son's house. The curate-son, with his rich wife and her pet lemur, got the Shelton living...