Word: peas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...earn money to attend Macalester College in St. Paul, Mondale worked as a pea-aphid inspector for the Green Giant company in the town of Blue Earth. It was at Macalester that Mondale first got involved with Hubert Humphrey and set his career on the course that was to carry him to the vice-presidential nomination...
Should she be troubled by a pea under her mattress-like the sensitive maiden in the fairy tale-Princess Anne of England, 25, will probably have to remove it herself, at least while she resides in the Olympic Village at Bromont, Quebec, 45 miles from Montreal. As one of the 21 members of Britain's equestrian team, Anne requested that she receive no special treatment, and she isn't getting any. She lives in a three-bedroom apartment with six other athletes, including her husband, Captain Mark Phillips, an alternate member of the team; she stands on line...
...They all confined themselves in a friend's house in Boston, along with a cow to provide milk. Two of the children soon developed eye inflammations, and one of them became covered with what her mother described as "above a thousand pussels as large as a great green pea... She can neither walk, sit, stand or lay with any comfort." The mother also reported that all the children "puke every morning but after are comfortable." The fourth child had to be inoculated three times before the treatment brought out pustules, and then he was delirious for two days...
...anyone managed to surmount these natural obstacles, there would be little enough to spy on. Mum might be cooking up a batch of her special pea soup (secret ingredient: sea salt), Dad might be settled back with some favorite reading material-science-fiction novels and comics, mostly. The whole family could be gathered around the table, enjoying a favorite meal of eggs and chips and larking about, hitting Dad for "requests"-everything from That Doggy in the Window to songs composed on the spot, to order, for whatever child does the asking. Dad may be working on the score...
Dinosaurs are generally regarded as overgrown lizards-pea-brained, coldblooded creatures that spent most of their lives hulking sluggishly in the sun. This image is unfair, argues Adrian Des mond, 28, an English-born doctoral candidate at Harvard University. Desmond, who studied vertebrate paleontology at London University, has spent the past several years reviewing the latest research on the huge creatures that ruled the earth for 140 million years. In a new book titled The Hot-Blooded Dinosaurs (Dial Press; $12.95), he contends that some dinosaurs and their kin were warm-blooded, complex and far more intelligent than some...