Word: matings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...affectionate patience, Dr. Lorenz has become familiar with the passions of that monogamous little fish, the cichlid. He knows the wild ecstasies of the Siamese fighting fish and the stickleback. He can spell out the intricate class consciousness of jackdaw society, for he has seen a low-ranking female mate with a high-ranking male and assume his place in the social order...
...mounts when his wife's old football-playing beau turns up, and the professor feels forced to show the redness in his blood. With liquor for a weapon, the male animal slays the Milquetoast in him; and in a very funny drunk scene, he elects to hold his mate-as swans and bull elephants do -by fighting for her. He does hold her-if only because the football player couldn't be more anxious...
...only other hard-ball game. Kirkland snuffed out Adams, 3 to 0. The Deacons' Don Cass pitched a three hitter, while team-mate Skip Kiphart helped him out by driving in two runs...
Shepherd's battery mate will be Francis "Bud" Ingoldshy. Ingoldsby, troubled by a sore--arms all year, will take his first try behind the plate. Against Sebastian's he played left field and led the barrage with two solid hits...
...payrolls, contracts, the national lottery, sugar quotas and other traditional means of political enrichment had made him enormously wealthy. Havana insiders estimate his fortune at $50 million, and credit him with one of the handsomest gestures ever made by an active, vigorous man who wanted a younger and prettier mate: he reportedly gave Elise a twelve-story apartment house, other valuable property and $8,000,000 in cash...