Word: reddish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...points of superiority. The Bronx's is the biggest anywhere. Little, open-air tractor trains, salvaged from the 1939 World's Fair, help visitors get around its spacious preserve. The Bronx has the greatest variety of species, and some of the greatest oddities. Its bongo, a reddish antelope with white rings around its middle, is the only one in captivity. Its okapi, built like a giraffe in front and a zebra behind, is the only one in the U.S. This spring the Bronx made a big splash with the importation of three duck-billed platypuses, the first...
...steps, stood jammed along the back and milled around the corridors outside, trying to get in. On the floor below, Senators began to arrive, pumping each other's hands, looking for their desks and seats for their friends. At 18 minutes to noon, Bilbo stumped in-reddish brown suit, sagging paunch, sunken cheeks, hair slicked down on his round skull...
...Leprosy, caused by a germ (Mycobacteria. leprae) resembling that of tuberculosis, attacks the skin and peripheral nerves. The first symptom is loss of sensation in the skin. Reddish spots develop, then nodules (lumps), particularly on the face. In late stages the disease may rot away the nose, ears, hands, feet...
Then, on April 20, 1945, a holdup man got into Reddish's cab, shoved a gun in his face. Reddish resisted, helped capture the gunman. For that Toronto's police commissioners gave him a silver tray inscribed: "For his courageous action . . . alertness and ingenuity...
Last week, when another holdup man tried the same thing, good citizen Reddish, 53, again resisted. This time the gunman got away. Behind him he left brave Alfred Reddish, shot through the head, dead...