Word: monkeyed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Monkey Danger. Thousands of lives have been saved with polio vaccines made from virus grown in cells from monkeys' kidneys. But monkeys harbor a mysterious "monkey virus B," which is nearly always fatal in man. At least 18 lab workers, write Drs. Frances M. Love and Erwin Jungherr of Lederle Laboratories, have become infected with "monkey B"-and many other cases have gone undiagnosed...
...Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the Monkey." --Mark Twain...
...from certain about what has happened to the man of the past. All we can say is that Robert Ardrey has presented a stale if intriguing view of man. He has given us some notion of how much man may still have in common with the monkey that so disappointed Mark Twain's Heavenly Father
...distract your attention and when you are least expecting it, you get a punch in the stomach or the liver and before you catch your breath, they grab you by the hair and push you head first into a barrel of water . . . There were other tortures, like 'the little monkey.' In this one they strip the prisoner and put him up on a pole that goes across the room under the ceiling, making him hang head down by his knees. Then they take a live wire and shock his testicles with...
...London's splendid Lancaster House,* where constitutional conferences compete with a baroque painting of Venus and the Graces, sat three graces from Africa, attired in tribal costumes of lion and monkey skins. Together with 62 other delegates from Kenya and ten British officials, the chiefs were attending what was already billed as "the last-chance" conference. Its aim: to prepare the way for Kenya's independence...