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Practice Cheese. Truffle dogs need not be imported. Training them is not difficult. Since genuine truffles are expensive ($12 a pound, canned), the trainer may use cheese. He takes bits of ripe, strong Gorgonzola, wraps them in cloth and buries them in the earth. When the odor has seeped through the soil, he leads his dog within range. After many tries, the dog gets the idea and smells out the Gorgonzola. When he digs up the bait, the trainer pats him and feeds him a rewarding biscuit...
...shrimp boats idled while their crewmen roamed about freely ashore, the U.S. skippers huddled with their lawyers and U.S. consular officials, trying to make up their minds whether to pay the fines under protest or post bail pending an appeal and decision of their cases. The time was ripe for both countries to stop trading such words as "poacher" or "pirate" and settle on a legal definition of territorial limits...
...that the whole head and shoulders are throbbing, like the breast of a nightingale. If this does not happen, then your production is too far back in the mouth. Bring the sound forward by picturing it as culminating on your closed lips; but lips only just closed, like two ripe blackberries touching each other and almost bursting in the contact...
...Only freshmen are crude and lack polish," volunteered a female member of the Class of '53. "The upperclassmen, I've gone out with are no longer green--they're quite ripe...
...believe the time is ripe for physicists, and scientists in general, to devote a much larger fraction of their time to research of military interest . . ." At present, Dr. Seitz says, there is not much opportunity or encouragement for such high-type recruits. Government money is not lacking, but Government research agencies have not enough imagination, leadership or freedom to act. One trouble, of wide concern to scientists, is congressional sniping...