Word: odd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...just as Abraham killed a calf for his guests. You sit around the fire, stuffed with food and talking endlessly. Then you are taken to the guest tent and covered against the cold with the tribe's best blankets. Your hosts mean well, but the food is sometimes odd-sheep's eyes are something I never got used to. And the blankets are full of bedbugs. A guest of the Bedouins always gets covered with bites...
...several diving birds (loons, grebes, cormorants and "sea ducks") can endure immersion for more than ten minutes. The warmblooded seal can endure under water for more than 20 minutes, and the equally warm-blooded whale can last for an hour, perhaps even two. Scholander's odd experiments were carefully designed to discover how the aquatic animals survive...
Gone are the esoteric defensive patterns fancied by longtime Assistant Coach Clark Shaughnessy (who quit last season after an angry tiff with Halas)-the 20-odd formations, the constant red dogs, the complicated codes used for calling signals in the defensive huddle (example: "Blue Hairy Flag, 38, Slide Up"). This year's Bears have but seven basic formations, get their signals in plain English. "It's old-fashioned football," says Coach Halas "Just like I used to play...
...graduate student in entomology has added to the brief catalogue of insect husbandry Louisiana State University's Gary Ross has watched Mexican carpenter ants (Camponotus abominalis) protect caterpillars against their natural enemies and live on the juices that the caterpillars excrete. Though both parties benefit from the odd relationship, nature ensures that it is always brief: by the time they are 83 days old, the caterpillar cattle sprout orange-rimmed wings and fly away...
...billion. The Dow-Jones industrial average jumped 32.03 points for the day, more than making up for the previous Friday's 21.16 loss, and, after a slight dip, went on rising to close the week at 750.52, ten points below the alltime high set a month ago. Heavy odd-lot buying showed that the small investor was back in the market in force. And the U.S. dollar held steady on world money markets, as speculators were fended off by the elaborate defenses that the Kennedy Administration had set up with European central banks to operate in times of trial...