Word: mating
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bacteria. Population geneticists study groups of wild creatures to see whether changes of environment affect hereditary traits. Practical geneticists use the latest tricks of science to breed new plant and animal strains. Geneticists who study humans are the most frustrated; they can seldom slice up their subjects or mate them experimentally...
...help of Professor L. J. Peacock. One stork was fitted out with segments of a blackened pingpong ball over each eye, and both birds were turned loose in a shallow pool filled with minnows. The blinkered stork sloshed ahead, snapping up fish as quickly as its wide-eyed mate. Vision, the two zoologists explained in the British magazine Nature, has no part in the wood stork's fishing technique. The bird's beak is something like a repeating mouse trap, snapping shut on anything that touches it. If a fish so much as brushes against either...
...letters, cuckolds and cash-on-the-line weddings. The "typical Shakesperian clown engages in a "typical" mixup of missives. The deranged Blanche du Bois figure in the Williams parody imagines a Spanish pen pal to take her from the beer-and-beatings world of her Stanley Kowalski type mate...
...Crossing. Mills halted the train and Fireman David Whitby, 26, swung down from the cab, went to the track-side telephone to find out what was wrong. He saw that the wires were cut and, turning, spotted a man between the second and third coaches. "What's up, mate?" asked Whitby, and the next moment he was grabbed from behind, warned, "If you shout, I'll kill...
...Happy Days takes place in the midst of an expanse of scorched grass; the stage is to reflect the "maximum of simplicity and symmetry." There are only two characters: the dumpy, 50-year-old Winnie, and her impotent, sixtyish mate Willie. But the talpine Willie has very little to say or to do; and thus the play is essentially a long monologue by Winnie. When all else fails, she's got her logorrhea to keep her warm...