Word: paired
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...poor minority. The only wild four-footed friends the island Pygmies could boast were a few small pigs, rats and native, skunklike creatures. In 1928 an Indian government expert visited the Andamans and decided that what the islands needed was a properly decorative quadruped. He introduced a pair (male & female) of dainty spotted chital deer. With no natural enemies to bother them, the chital deer multiplied wonderfully. They were lovely to look at, and they were soon making a mess of the Andaman Islands, eating the forests bare and ruining the native farms...
Last year another government expert visited the Andamans. What the islands now needed, he decided, was a pair of panthers to control the deer. The panthers were soon delivered, and last week New Delhi's Forestry Department announced that they are already making a deep impression on the deer population. Furthermore, it said, there should be no danger of a new epidemic of wild life on Andaman-both panthers are females...
...Yardling ladder, Lanny Thomas, won his first, fourth and fifth games, but dropped the middle pair, for a 3 to 2 tally. Pete Milton, playing second man, lost only his second game, with a 3 to 1 score, and Ham Graven won all his games. Martin Heckschire and Art Ellison did not play...
...winter and enjoys the seacoast in summer, she paints sand dunes, dilapidated beach shacks, blistered city sidewalks and budding trees. Most of the time her subjects become misty almost phosphorescent fantasies. Sometimes sne turns sharply realistic and does a meticulous study of a battered window shade or a pair of old shoes. One of her best: Emmett Kelly, a sympathetic portrait of the sadeyed circus clown...
...Brighter Sun, by Samuel Selvon. The marriage and dreams of a pair of teen-age Trinidadians; a fresh and authentic first novel by a young West Indian (TIME...