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...liked to have someone rub his head with petroleum jelly while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign Quiz | 8/3/1992 | See Source »

...elephants. Says Ndokanda: "This is the elephant's city, and the leopard's and other animals' too." The grid of paths leads to the elephants' favorite spots: mineral licks and clearings, where they socialize with relatives and friends; baths, where they cover themselves with mud; knobby trees, where they rub the mud off, stripping their skin of ticks in the process; and trees such as the Balanites wilsoniana and Autranella congoensis, beloved by the big animals for their fruits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Last Eden: a remote African rain forest | 7/13/1992 | See Source »

After the presentation, the group marched over to the Quincy dining hall to rub their trophy in the collective face of this year's runners...

Author: By Ted G. Rose, | Title: Rompin' Rabbits of LEVERETT HOUSE? | 6/4/1992 | See Source »

...implement the changes that he has targeted,however, the new president will first have toovercome Harvard's notorious institutionalinertia, which often appears to rub off, at leastpartially, on its leaders...

Author: By Gady A. Epstein, | Title: RUDENSTINE | 6/4/1992 | See Source »

...egghead type, and I don't mean that disrespectfully," Robert C. Jebelirer, the Republican president pro tempore of the Pennsylvania Senate told The New York Times last May. "I just don't see Harris Wofford as having the personality to shake hands and rub elbows...

Author: By John B. Trainer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Kennedy School Class Day Speaker: U.S. Senator Harris L. Wofford | 6/3/1992 | See Source »

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