Word: pecking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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According to an old saw, if a chimpanzee is allowed to punch the keys of a typewriter at random for a long enough time, it will eventually peck out Hamlet. Lana, a playful three-year-old female chimpanzee at Emory University's Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center, will never accomplish that feat, but she is already one up on the hypothetical chimp. Under the tutelage of the center's scientists, Lana is rapidly learning how to read and write in a brand-new language called Yerkish...
Dick Cashin picked up Harvard's sixth win at number three, topping Penn's Tom Peck...
MONDAY: To Kill A Mockingbird. 1962. Gregory Peck at his most noble in a story of racial prejudice, honor, and childhood in a little Alabama town. CH.4...
Chronologically, the images stretch from the first page of the first story in the first issue-a Saturday night in Fort Peck, Mont., in 1936, where WPA workers are whooping it up at a local saloon -to a recent moment when Dick Cavett made fun of TV talk shows by interviewing Louis, his own poodle. The book embraces one Depression, five wars, five Presidents, and that picture of Rita Hayworth in a black-bodiced, white satin nightgown. Fiorello La Guardia appears, blowing smoke rings with bemused insouciance. So does Nikita Khrushchev, shaking his fist in the face...
...took most of these stories heavily to heart as the Harvard way of doing things. And I figured I should conform. But then I really didn't want to, and here I was stuck with a gay boyfriend who tucked me into bed at night with just a peck upon the cheek. This on top of all the orgy stories, and the phonecalls, and the confrontations with perversion, and the rumors, and the sex-starved suicidal best friend...