Word: snaking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...snake you identified as a boa is actually an African rock python. The python usually makes a hardier, longer-lived, more interesting, gentler pet than the boa, and is much larger...
Year of the Snake. Given this evidence, it was not surprising that the North Vietnamese thought they could continue to operate with impunity from their privileged sanctuary against the South. Finally, they provoked Lyndon Johnson beyond patience. The attack that started the escalator came on Feb. 7, following a week-long lull in the war while Vietnamese celebrated the lunar New Year. As the Year of the Dragon went out and the Year of the Snake came in, the Viet Cong had unilaterally proclaimed a seven-day ceasefire. They spent that period busily caching explosives and setting up mortar positions...
...architects must often plan not only enough bedrooms for parents and children but also space for the family's camel and goats. Buildings in Libya require weather stripping and storm windows to keep sand from blowing in African buildings must be equipped with insect shields, and bird and snake screens. Excavation sites are usually sterilized to kill voracious African bugs that can even bore through concrete
...Chicago, a day laborer walked into a pet shop and walked out with a black bear. A store in suburban Seattle is advertising a special on baby elephants (two for $9,998 and one free). A terrified Boston girl bought a five-foot indigo snake as a wedding gift for her fiance. Hunter Nick Del Duca, in Canyon City, Colo., has orders for six Colorado mountain lion cubs at $150 apiece, and can sell as many more as he can catch...
...Snakes are a big new fad-especially, say dealers, among women. Pythons and boa constrictors, at about $5 a foot, are the most popular. Seattle Dealer Dawayne Goodburn considers them "good family pets, very clean and companionable and easy to feed." He recently sold a 5-ft. South American boa to a family with 2½-year-old girl triplets. Snake-fancying Sophomore Laurie Vitt of Western Washington State College has a python, rattlesnake, tokay gecko and two boas, which he keeps in his room with his tarantulas when his parents entertain. One evening, he was treating the boas...