Word: monkeyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pete Reilly is a natural-born innovator. He developed boxing champions Jack Delaney and Bat Battalino, became famed as the originator of the hot foot. Last week, with the atmosphere at many a ringside foul with monkey business (investigations were under way in California, Pennsylvania and the District of Columbia), silver-haired Pete brought his fresh air with...
...Journal of the American Dental Association they told of putting a little virus in the tooth cavities of monkeys. They succeeded in producing paralysis in one monkey and nerve damage in several others. From two areas in last year's polio epidemic they got additional evidence: 70% of the victims in three North Carolina treatment centers had such bad cavities that pulp was exposed, while only 27% of well children in the same districts had serious cavities; in Baltimore 65% of polio patients had exposed pulp, compared with only 24% of well children...
...roads to Mandalay had never seen such strange companies of men: long-bearded Sikhs, tall, blond Britons, swart Gurkhas. Their companions were as strange. On almost every truck and tank perched a sad-faced monkey. A sheep marched beside an Indian Army officer, took cover with him in battle, lay down beside him at night. Fierce Gurkha warriors walked beside their mules, talked affectionately to them, brushed them devotedly (a Gurkha looks upon a mule as infallible, and weeps like a child when one is killed...
...look, you're a newshawk an ya like to write the stuff. Or maybe ya even like to dig up the stuff. Ya won't make a monkey out of yaself, but you'll probably see yourself in places ya never expected to be. Your relations with the Assistant Deans, unless your case is pending action by the Administrative Board, will be anything but official; who knows, ya may even get to see a full Dean some day. Your life as a reporter will be a happy one; ya probe, ya investigate, even expose. As a newsman ya write almost...
...purple-faced, yellow-whiskered, longtailed monkey. **A South African wild...