Word: safes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last count there were exactly 27 whooping cranes left in the world: one at the San Antonio zoo, two at the New Orleans zoo and 24 at the Aransas National Wildlife Refuge on Texas' Gulf Coast. If the cranes would just stay at safe, secluded Aransas, they might increase-though not very fast, since whooping crane couples go steady for a few years before mating. But every April the flock flies off to breeding grounds near Canada's Great Slave Lake-all except one loner that, for reasons that baffle ornithologists (and possibly other whooping cranes), stayed...
...Mexican vaquero, who found the hungry black buster where he wailed indignantly in the cold and wet, and carried him back to finish his first night in a warm bed. Gitano (gypsy) the boy called him. The two were inseparable, but very little else was safe within a rope's length of that savage young fighter. He charged the chickens, butted the bucket, larked with the laundry; when the time for branding came, it took seven good men to catch the black yearling and four to hold him down...
...Yale swimmers had built a lead of nearly two body lengths by the time Dyer took off on the anchor leg. In spite of a sprint that brought him within a quarter of a length of Anderson, Dyer faded slightly on the last lap and the Elis were home safe...
...atmosphere is an insignificant film, thinner in proportion than the skin of an apple, and that military technology is about to outgrow it, as it outgrew the earth's surface two world wars ago. Navigation of the air-film is no longer enough. No nation will be safe unless it can also navigate the vacuum that hangs overhead...
...management of a brewery, comes to nothing because her beer is terrible, and so Margery alters her plans. She determines to become a saint, an ambition which is fulfilled after she performs the accredited miracle of surviving unscathed the collapse of a church. Thus far the playwright is on safe ground. He exhibits a talent for writing witty dialogue, and his light tone wobbles only once or twice when he essays into the composition of poetry...