Word: mimics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...floor in the back lay Woods, his silvery hair dyed black and his features concealed by a false mustache and thick glasses. When they were safely out of town. Woods jumped out and began a 185-mile hitchhike to a town near the Lesotho border. An accomplished mimic, he told one curious motorist that he was an Afrikaner. To another driver he explained that he was an Australian poet, and to a third a German engineer. "I fully expected," he admitted, "to find a roadblock beyond every turn." He crossed the border on foot, hiking twelve miles over thickly wooded...
...television screen provides most people with their visual knowledge of real events, such as President Kennedy's assassination, so that truth and show-biz demands are bound to get mixed up when two networks (ABC and CBS) morbidly return to the scene of the crime this fall and mimic its actuality, with docudramas on Lee Harvey Oswald. Because people are more apt to spot a poor job of makeup than a perversion of the facts, historians worry about television's lopsided history lessons. Last year's Truman at Potsdam made out that his primary motive in dropping...
...make me President because I didn't want to take advantage of the relationship"), with teeth like Bugs Bunny ("That man can eat a pineapple through a tennis racket," observed Comedian Pat Paulsen). But Ford's maladroitness as a topic was short-lived, and as Planters and Mimic Rich Little discovered, "There is only so much you could do with peanuts...
HORMONES. Scientists are beginning to identify and mimic the hormones that regulate the growth, development and reproductive activities of insects. Zoecon Corp. of Palo Alto, Calif., has just started marketing a compound called Altosid SR-10, which is chemically similar to the juvenile hormone secreted by insects during an early stage of development. Approved for use against floodwater mosquitoes only, the compound prevents harmless juveniles from maturing into annoying adults. Mosquitoes exposed to the chemical are trapped and die in their larval or pupal stages. William Robbins, of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's research
This Henry is a platoon sergeant rather than lord of the realm. It is not only his gawky stance that denies the cleverness and kingliness of Henry V's character, but also his brusquely rushed vocal delivery that seems to mimic Richard Burton's voice without offering any of its sumptuously resonant timbre...