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...million kittens born in the U.S. every year. The final phase of intercourse is quite painful to the female. In the cat family, the release of the eggs for fertilization requires a triggering mechanism. The device is supplied by prickly spines that cover the penis and rake out the female on its withdrawal. A piercing cry invariably and understandably follows. The pregnancy cycle is brisk in tempo. A litter conceived in February is born in April and reared by July, with the mother all ready for another go. It will surprise some readers to find that cats do not kill...
...raged at an 18% rate. Public debt zoomed moonward at a catastrophic speed, while the idea of restricting consumption to narrow an enormous deficit elicited a knowing snigger. By calling a snap election for this week, Cosgrave has replaced romance with realism. The country, he says, must stop "this rake's progress...
...husband (Barry Hankerson), who has been enjoying the high wages and low life that go with working on the pipeline. His boss is a sneering meanie who owns half the town, runs a prostitute colony on the side and periodically sabotages construction work in order to prolong the rake-offs he and his colleagues are taking...
...next hour or so, all was tranquil. Several children passed the hydrant on their way to skate on a nearby pond. One boy spotted the package and stopped, but a husky man emerged from a brick house and ordered him on his way. The man began to rake leaves around the house. Several times he approached the package but did not touch it. Finally, when the leaves had been raked into neat piles, he reached down and grabbed the bait...
...early days of the century, when typewriters were upright and competition was downright dirty. American newspapers used to rake each other's muck with all the verve they now expend on erring politicians. These days most papers observe an unwritten rule: Thou shalt not take a poke at another practitioner. Last week, however, one of the nation's biggest dailies, the Los Angeles Times (circ. 1,005,000), threw a haymaker at a smaller paper in nearby Long Beach, the Independent, Press-Telegram. In a rambling 20,000-word account spread over seven pages, the Times accused...