Word: littered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...north of the Rio Grande-are given knowledgeable biographies by an industrious naturalist. Leonard Lee Rue III knows more than other authorities, including Larousse, will let on about the American opossum: Did anyone else know that an infant opossum is the size of a pencil eraser, while a whole litter of 16 would not fill a teaspoon? Most backward and unfortunate of all American mammals, Mother usually has only a dozen teats. What happens to the odd opossums? They are dropouts...
Heckscher responded immediately, "Henry Reed has a mistaken pastoral ideal of parks and landscapes. He simply doesn't like to see things happen in the parks. But what good is a park if people are afraid to use it?" Litter is a problem, but Heckscher is happier worrying about garbage than violence and vandalism. "We've been lucky in the parks," he says. "We've been able to work great changes by simply calling upon the people, by saying 'Come on in, the weather's fine.' And the people have responded...
...Richard R. Lower of the Medical College of Virginia more than a year before. She and another pup had not only survived with substitute hearts, but they were able to function normally-even to the extent, in the brown and white dog's case, of bearing a litter of puppies...
Late last week a magnetometer towed by the U.S.N.S. Silas Bent, a 285-ft.-long floating oceanographic laboratory, transmitted a suspect blip. But more than a score of wrecks litter the ocean floor off the Rat Islands; until a special camera synchronized to a high-powered strobe light can be lowered over the spot, the sea is guarding its secret...
...response approaches aeluromania. Between her Hudson-view apartment in Manhattan and her handsome country home near Weston, Conn., Sandy now has five dogs and 21 cats. She just can't resist a stray. She has been heard to comment, while emptying yet another box of Kitty Litter: "I bet you wouldn't find Ava Gardner doing this...