Word: mounds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...concave to convex) takes the place of the nipple. After this surgery, a woman has an abdominal scar but no deformity. In some patients, as a result of an embryonic failure, a breast may be missing, with only a nipple present; in such cases, Surgeon Gillies has built a mound of tissue under and around the nipple. In one case, he notes: "With marriage and pregnancy, the diminutive portion of breast tissue increased greatly and enabled lactation to occur through this new breast...
...ants do not destroy any specific crop. Their way of life is to tunnel underground, excavating a nest of interlaced chambers and building a solid mound about a foot high. Their food is juices sucked from plant roots and stems, seeds, tender shoots, and any insects or animals that they can kill. They go for fledgling birds, and even kill them in their eggs before they have quite hatched. Most conspicuous damage is done to vegetables...
According to Anthropologist David Cole, who is photographing the carvings, modern Indians of the Northwest have no traditions about the ancient people who made the rock carvings. The carvings themselves cannot be dated by any known method, but carbon-14 tests of an organic material from a nearby mound show that the region was inhabited 9,000 years ago. Presumably the rock carvers depended on the Columbia salmon, as later Indians did, but where they came from and what happened to them no one knows. The mystery may be solved by study of the carvings- if they are saved...
...that a new meditation hall would have to be built to accommodate them. And the current issue of Vogue tips off its readers that People Are Talking About "the Columbia University classes of the great Zen Buddhist teacher, Dr. Daisetz Suzuki, who sits in the center of a mound of books, waving his spectacles with ceremonial elegance while mingling the philosophical abstract with the familiar concrete...
...mound under a sheet, a square of pale Mortal flesh incised in a seeping line, Spreading its lips for pretty butchery...