Word: orangutan
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...thank you warmly for putting our remote land-of the orangutan, the long house, the blowpipe, and the highest mountain in Southeast Asia...
...midst of these pro-Harvard and anti-Princeton hapepnings, a full-sized, scuffed orangutan was reported stolen from a college room. But perhaps he was not stolen; perhaps he only felt that a full-sized, stuffed orangutan had no place in the changing scheme of things...
...proceeds to poke at the privacy and the professional talents of well-known figures in the popular-music industry, whether they are guests on the show or not. Some typical Faye autopsies: Eddie Fisher "sings with as much animation as a dead fish"; Elvis Presley is "a bouncing orangutan, a musical degenerate"; Tab Hunter's "squeak is a travesty, a horror." Of his own sister. Cafe Singer Frances Faye, he cracked: "She's really not my sister; she's my father...
...year when autos were funneled out with no money down, up to 42 months to pay. In Corpus Christi, Texas, movie houses even urged patrons to put admissions, popcorn and peanuts on the cuff, while in Omaha, one pet-shop owner went so far as to sell an orangutan on the installment plan...
...extremely ancient. The skull fragments may be 50,000 years old, the age of many other human bones found throughout Europe. The jawbone, according to the scientists' report in the British Museum Bulletin, fared even worse: it proved to be the jaw of a modern ape, probably an orangutan, which died at the age of ten. It had been artificially colored with potassium bichromate and an iron salt to make it look old, and its teeth had been pared to make them look more or less human. Unanswered still was the question of who had planted the fake. Dawson...