Word: monkeyed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scold his colleagues about their leisurely ways, question any and all spending bills, and push what he considers his lonely fight "to save this country from national bankruptcy." He is a nitpicker and a pest. He detests Washington's social life ("I've never worn a monkey suit"), prefers watching wrestling on television with his wife Hazel in their apartment ("an oasis in a community of synthetic functions"). But, as self-appointed caretaker of the congressional conscience, he has his own unique value. The House needs a man like H. R. Gross-although one is probably plenty...
...During his 37-year rise from traveling geologist for Aluminum Co. of America, scholarly Lawrence Litchfield Jr., 61, learned to eat monkey meat and acquired a command of the Dutch Guiana pidgin known as Takki-Takki. But since he was named Alcoa's president two years ago, Litchfield's studies have been less exotic: under the tutelage of Chairman Frank Magee, 66, he has been mastering the art of managing a major corporation under tough competitive pressure. Last week, Magee turned over to Annapolis Graduate Litchfield ('20) the duties of chief executive of the world...
...Gallico invented him and his doings from a single shred of fact: during the war Prime Minister Winston Churchill issued orders that the ape population of Gibraltar be preserved, in deference to the legend that when the last ape leaves the rock, the British will, too. The monkey tricks that roll out of Gallico's typewriter are frantic but predictable. The crisis, brought on by fifth columnists who try to wipe out the ape population, is passed when Scruffy is induced to marry cross-eyed Amelia, after a long-distance betrothal complete with a touched-up portrait...
What are the Sox' chances of maintaining their present lofty gait (7-5)? That's like asking what are the chances that a rhesus monkey, given a pack of Corrasable Bond and rubber stamps of the letters A and X, will turn out the 1962 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica. But the Red Sox are high in the commodity known as spirit, and as Connie Mack used to say, if you haven't got it there, the prospects of your having it at all are remote at best...
While no researcher could yet prove that any cancer in monkey or man is caused by a virus, each virological cross link between the higher and lower ani mals held out a promise of more knowledge to come...