Word: roe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said Manhattan Psychologist Anne Roe: doctors have spent too much time trying to find out why people get emotionally sick, and not enough time trying to find out why they stay emotionally well. Tests may show that a "patient" has a severe neurosis, but he may be prosperous and socially successful. Studying "normal" people, Dr. Roe admitted, has bored too many researchers...
...Ryder Cup golf team did upon reaching the U.S., was to consume ten man-sized steaks-one per man. Then, in subsequent meals, they shoveled in eggs and chops and more steak. They hadn't eaten like that since Hitler started his march through Europe. Said Commander C.R.T. Roe, the non-playing British captain: "The ham I ate for breakfast would last a month in England." They ate their way cross-country to Portland, Ore. and arrived on the playing scene as contented, and as unready for battle, as a cat with canary feathers in his mouth...
...HALL ROE...
Princess Elizabeth, achasing the wild deer and following the roe in the glens around Musselburgh, Scotland, bagged a twelve-point stag...
...like fish. Unique among marine life, they ride the surf onto sandy beaches, there to spawn and quickly go away again. The female dances on her tail, drilling a hole into the sand for her eggs, while the male flops wildly about her. The next full breaker covers the roe with sand, washes the grunion back...