Word: matings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...people in the American Birding Association, which is made up of gung-ho list chasers as opposed to sedentary bathrobe birders, are fighting this. We're going to make up our own list based on recognizable field markings, not on with whom the birds happen to mate. The Baltimore oriole lives...
...layoffs, TIME Correspondent William McWhirter last week found Britons managing remarkably well despite the current economic dislocations. "If there is any pride around the Midlands," cabled McWhirter, "it is that they have managed to cope with half-time employment better than anyone else could have. This is our specialty, mate,' said Jack Hebbs, a Midlands shop steward. 'Patch and improvise. The Germans would go running for their rule books, and the French would be out marching with the red flags. We know the routine.' Yet there is growing pessimism that the future may not come around after...
Porter got plenty of help from backcourt mate Phil Chenier, who hit for 29 points, and big Elvin Hayes, who had 25. Mike Rierdon contributed 20, mostly with his long bombs...
...closing time approaches, panic overtakes those who have yet to find a mate; men who have spent the evening leaning against the wall suddenly come to life and lunge toward their nubile prey. The ratio of men to women seems to be nearly 50-50 at this point, ensuring-at least in theory-that no one will leave alone. But as couples drift off into the darkness, the games have only begun. Gripes Jeff Erikson, a TV salesman from Minneapolis: "Some chicks come here to be hustled, others to fall in love. It would help if they wore different signs...
...universe does not lie in the farthest reaches of outer space. Nor is it found in the most remote Amazonian jungle or in the inky blackness of the Mariana Trench. It is located instead in side the human skull, and consists of some 3½ pounds of pinkish-gray mate rial with the consistency of oat meal. It is, of course, the human brain...