Word: monkey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Republican minority making a monkey out of Franklin D. Roosevelt...
...magic clichè of expansion. Worst of all, its Premier was a Navy man. And of all the Navy men in Japan, he was Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai -the tall, boyish, amiable, aristocratic, experienced (thrice Navy Minister), pro-U. S., moderate Naval Commander in Chief who last summer threw a monkey wrench into the proposed Rome-Berlin-Tokyo military machine. As Navy Minister he refused to put his great fleet at the disposal of two major countries with minor navies...
...parts : acquiring art, luring people in to see it, teaching them to make it part of their daily lives. The average American sees the inside of an art museum only once in five years. By upping attendance from 37,000 to 145,000 a year, Director Taylor made a monkey of this average at Worcester. A similar opportunity awaits him at the Metropolitan, where attendance has slumped in the last decade from 1,250,000 to 946,000 (though the Cloisters, its separate branch of medieval art, opened in 1938, now more than makes up the difference...
...straddled the taffrail, and looked down. There was a boat in the water and several ropes leading down into it. These were the life liners and were fastened above to the boat deck. Halfway down one of these ropes was a woman in yellow, clinging to it like a monkey to a stick. A man with a red face was in the boat trying to help her in; he looked up; his mouth was open and his eyes looked like saucers...
...Hertig of Harvard. The ova show that the early stages of embryonic development are not, as used to be thought, significantly different in man and other animals. The Hertig ova convinced the Institution's embryologists that these early processes are practically the same in man and the rhesus monkey...