Word: tailing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...abroad. Often tongue-tied in public, his main relaxation is flying around the world in his two private planes. One was owned by Howard Hughes when he was escorting Jane Russell; his other craft, a Convair 440, is painted 14 shades of green, with a shamrock on the tail and a leprechaun near the entry hatch. Daly calls it "the jolly green giant," but less respectful mechanics know it as "the green pickle...
...occasion, she led his armies into battle. Her tomb contained 200 bronze vessels, some 600 sculptures and ritual objects of jade and stone. Most charming among the bronzes is a pitcher in the shape of an owl; among the jades is a stylized crested bird with a sweeping tail that any art deco designer could be proud...
Judging from the warm reception that American visitors receive, the Somali public would welcome a formal military cooperation agreement. Now that the Soviets are gone, many of the harsher vestiges of the police state, like the thugs who used to tail every foreign visitor, have disappeared...
...meter run, Dixon held on to an early lead to break the tape at 3:52.71. Tri-captain Thad McNulty, who later in the day won the 800 meters in 1:54.04, bagged second at 3:53.07, while freshman Eric Schuler, on Tiger Dan Challener's tail for much of the race, pulled by him in the last yards to take third at 3:54.38 to complete the Crimson sweep...
...active female mounts a passive one, curves the tail under the other's body, strokes the partner's back and neck, joins genital regions, and rides on top for one to five minutes. The active female lizard always has small undeveloped eggs, while the passive female has large pre-ovulatory eggs. But there are cyclic variations in behavior and egg size in these reptiles, and roles reverse; the passive female of one encounter can be the active partner of the next. Says Crews: "We are now trying to determine whether this malelike behavior facilitates reproductive function." Translation...