Word: litters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many of the offspring of mice put in the chamber were normal, and the seriousness of the defects varied widely even in the same litter, indicating that some mice could resist the injury better than others...
...London failed to find much true artistic classicism. Instead, without the usual nightmarish litter to distract them, critics and gallerygoers were spotting some old Dali shortcomings more clearly than ever. The London Times dismissed Dali's recent work as "trivial and irreverent . . . singularly banal." In the Daily Express, Critic Osbert Lancaster applied the most devastating label of all: Victorian. In his "laborious accuracy and painstaking attention to detail," said Lancaster, Dali reminded him of some "minor academician" of Victoria's Royal Academy...
Sound Effects. So the Pfizer people selected a resonant sow and recorded both her mealtime grunt and the joyous squeals of her litter. That does the trick, says Pfizer. When the deep-sleeping pigs hear the sound effects, they wake up in a flash and connect with rows of rubber nipples charged with Terralac...
...visitor to the untidy London flat might guess, it houses an old bachelor. In the sitting room, a hastily thrown coverlet drapes an obviously unmade bed. A litter of books, manuscripts and knick-knacks lines walls and floors like the twigs of a nest. Amiably at home in this cozy mess flutters a rare old bird, the dean of English letters, Edward Morgan Forster...
Pious Orgy. At last came a fearful day when a reigning priest-chief died. A frenzy of slaughtering and burying swept over the village. First the villagers laid the dead priest in his ceremonial litter at the end of their wide plaza. Near him they buried four men and two women, sacrifices or suicides, and covered the women's bodies with flat stones. Then, out of the temples and huts came all the appurtenances of their gruesome religion: the strange sacred pots, 75 of them, along with baskets of skulls and bundles of human bones. As they laid down...