Word: mated
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Italy, a species of ants known as Myrmica scabrinodis, which for centuries past at this season have come to mate in nuptial flight and die by the billions near the shrine of the Madonna of the Mountain of the Ants, largely forsook their Madonna and swarmed and died instead at a Communist festival in a village on the slope. "It is," cried one Communist, "the effect of the Pope's excommunication decree...
There seemed to be scant applause from the fleet. Since V-J day most of the complaining civilians have disappeared. "Why pockets?" grumbled one bosun's mate 1st class. "As soon as we get them the Navy will have a regulation that we can't put anything in them...
...flew in to buy 350 steers for his garrison, and Lohman ordered a couple of Indians to ride north with them on the trail. A mud-spattered Gaucho galloped up with a report from a 100,000-acre pasture 35 miles away. The boss put down his gourd of mate, pulled out a notebook and wrote: "1,250 calves branded this week." That brought the year's total to more than...
With a chest thump and ape warble, Tarzan will start vine-swinging from the lianas for the 26th time next week. In Tarzan and the Slave Girl, Producer Sol Lesser is giving the tenth and current Tarzan (Lex Barker) a new mate-probably Vanessa Brown. But the script will hold close to the tried & true line that has enchanted three decades of romantics and grossed around $3,000,000 a picture. Tarzan has been the most durable and successful series in movie history...
...plot is really a clash of the Silas Marner theme. Hope, as the doleful bookie, is a miser. Mary Jane, dubbed "Shorts," lands on Jones' doorstep when her father is killed for accidentally discovering a big race fix. Jones is callous towards his new room mate at first, but as the story progresses, he becomes more and more attached to her; the movie's neatest trick is conveying with subtlety Jones' growing affection for his ill-gotten ward. The first night that Shorts stays with Jones, she asks him to sing her a Lullaby. Jones complies, singing the tune...