Word: pigeoneers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stage that interests Lindsley, as psychologist, because of its obvious strategic importance with respect to increased anxiety and fear of combat personnel following even sub-lethal doses of radiation. "The results obtained from these experiments with dogs are based on laws of animal behavior learned through the study of pigeons," says Lindsley. "Most probably a human's reaction to irradiation would be the same as a dog's--for it's a bigger phylogenetic jump from the pigeon to the dog than from the dog to man." Also significant is the fact that many people irradiated in the treatment...
Daffodils in England. At the siege of Acre, John surprises Guy in the act of loosing a carrier pigeon, and realizes that all the Frenchman's cynicism was not just words: the rascal is dealing with the enemy. Guy takes flight, and the Lady Melisande, alas, goes after him. Robert and John and King Richard all have plenty of troubles after that; Robert never does live to return home...
...labor in a shoe-polish factory in the Strand; years later, he could not walk past the site because it made him cry. In his early 20s, he was jilted by a flirt whom he had worshiped for four years. On the rebound, he married Catherine Hogarth,* a pouter pigeon of a woman who gave him ten children but small joy. This brood he later called "the largest family ever known with the smallest disposition to do anything for themselves...
...fate which kept lovers apart. "If only," blurted Auguste at last, "that husband would drop dead!" Well, murmured the professor soothingly, why not? A few hints dropped here & there to the right people in the spirit world-all the professor needed to do the job, in fact, was two pigeon hearts and 27,000 francs. Auguste procured both items...
...Long Voyage Home. In Masterton, N.Z., Pigeon Fancier Robert Stewart looked in his loft, announced that his entry in the 1947 pigeon race from Christchurch to Masterton (300 miles) had finally made...