Word: organisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Galtsoff has a practical objective: protecting U.S. oyster beds from snails, which eat about $6,000,000 worth of oysters each year. The drills gnaw a hole in the oyster shell with a filelike organ called a "radula"; then they insert the toothed front end of their stomach and nibble the oyster away. Conchs do their dirty work on the edge of oyster shells. When all the oysters have been eaten, they file holes in one another...
Acting Secretary of State Dean Acheson, defending the Administration's policy, declared: "It may be that at some future time the United Nations will be organized and equipped so as to render emergency aid." The time, he intimated, was not now. "Even if some organ of the United Nations should decide to recommend assistance to Greece and Turkey, it would have eventually to turn primarily to the United States for funds and supplies and technical assistance. Even if the project were not blocked by the objections of certain members of the United Nations, much time would have been lost...
...large, cold chapel of Paris' La Trinite Church, 100 people gathered to attend a low Mass for Lili. As she does every year, Nadia Boulanger had arranged a music program in Lili's memory. Nadia sat in a front pew; she did not play the organ music-though she is a top organist...
...fashioned apartment (sometimes called la boulangerie) in Montmartre was a musical rendezvous of Paris. There, with the framed visages of Liszt, Rubinstein, Beethoven and Stravinsky staring from the walls, students gathered every night to talk, listen, play and, on occasion, eat. The two pianos and pipe organ in the apartment were seldom silent...
Between periods, the organ lustily pumped out a chorus or two of Alouette. That seemed to inspire Les Canadiens. With two minutes to go, Forward Buddy O'Connor lashed in the winning goal. In Manhattan next night, Les Canadiens brought their local color along. While winning again and clinching first place, they engaged in Madison Square Garden's liveliest hockey riot in many a year (partial score: three misconduct penalties, an obstreperous fan's bald pate creased...