Word: mule
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when he dressed up like a hillbilly for a high school skit, he was funnier than a bowlegged mule. But later on, after he graduated from the University of Alabama and worked for a spell in New York City as a typist, he came back with a highfalutin accent, and no body thought he was funny any more...
...open to enjoy the perfume from orange, lemon and almond trees in the garden beneath. Winter used to be the peak season, and in those days, recalls Night Porter Antonino Cappelli, as few as three titled families would fill the whole hotel with their retinues, and it took a mule train to fetch their belongings from the railroad station. Now spring and summer are the busy months, and, says Cappelli, "today they come with a flight bag containing a change of underwear." ¶ Hotel Maria Cristina in San Sebastian, Spain. Queen Maria Cristina started it all back in 1912, when...
...support each "jockey" must ultimately depend. Is there not, however, an outside chance that it represents a "dark horse" candidate? A Mustang for Ford Foundation President McGeorge Bundy? A symbol of the long-departed past for Barry Goldwater? Or perhaps it is not a horse at all, but a mule standing for George Wallace's stubbornness in the schoolhouse door...
...species is defined by scientists as a group that can reproduce itself. Two species are marked as distinct if mixed members either will not mate or cannot produce fertile male and female offspring. Thus the horse and the donkey are separate species because their issue, the mule, is always sterile. In the case of the fruit flies, the Llanos strain was capable of producing fertile young with other strains in 1958, but when they were remated later, the males of the isolated group could not sire fertile sons with any females except those of their own strain...
...today, Harry Truman is a candidate for the rank of one of the great American Presidents. He deserves that estimation. He deserves it because in world leadership, he so often did what was so courageously right. He had all the virtues of a Missouri mule...