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Word: moles (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mole crickets, so named because they dig underground burrows, also make loud noises with amorous intent, says British Zoologist H.C. Bennet-Clark. In fact, they make their burrows in the shape of double-horned acoustic amplifiers to concentrate and focus their siren sounds for maximum effect in attracting females. They produce the noise by rubbing a toothed vein on one forewing with a pluck on the other. University of Florida Entomologist Thomas J. Walker explains that male field crickets produce three identifiable songs: one to hail a likely lover, another to beguile one already enthralled, and a third to warn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Why the Cricket Chirps | 8/24/1970 | See Source »

...handful of almost distraught guys who created last Saturday's "riotchka" have not learned. That night it was simple to grasp how a fellow like Lenin could get so vehement over political mistakes that he would go home to write his Collected Works. In contrast to the Old Mole. Juche and other radicals who went out of their way to ease the situation, a collective or two persisted in stirring something up from a near-vacuum. Should a similar situation recur, such groups might best be sternly isolated and restrained and confronted with the strong moral censure that comes with...

Author: By Jay NEWMAN Harvard gsas, | Title: The Mail THE RIOT | 7/28/1970 | See Source »

...came under attack from Faculty liberals several times, particularly after a letter stolen from his files was published in the Old Mole during the spring 1969 strike. The confidential letter from Ford to President Pusey criticized the Faculty's vote on ROTC as hasty and ill-conceived...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Franklin Ford Is Back, Will Live In Quincy | 7/10/1970 | See Source »

Other individuals join in the game, selling newspapers, bootleg records, pots of brown rice, stolen cameras, and dope. Some of the newspapers are very good. The Old Mole, published weekly by a group of Cambridge radicals, is probably the best. You can also buy The Black Panther, the Militant, and Broadside Free Press. The brown rice is pretty good also. Buying cameras and dope is probably not a good idea...

Author: By Garrett Epps, | Title: Cosmic Laughs in the Square | 6/29/1970 | See Source »

From the Old Mole: On the banks of the Mississippi below St. Louis, there are signs warning picnickers not to eat their lunch on or near the banks. The spray from the river contains typhoid, colitis, hepatitis,, diarrhea, saramonella, tuberculosis, and polio. It is an open sewer. If you place a fish in a container of river water, it will die in 60 seconds. Dilute the water 100 times with clear water, and the fish will die in 24 hours...

Author: By Richard E. Hyland, | Title: Learning From the Vietnamese | 6/29/1970 | See Source »

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