Word: tuft
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fact the entire company, with the exception of Joan Abrahams' very stilted Countess and John Callahan's painfully inept Damiens, seems quite competent. Mr. Mullin has let them down rather spectacularly, but that's not to say that the rest of Tuft's season won't be better...
Harvard's ninth run came in the seventh on a double steal. Miller doubled, tagged up and went to third on McLandish's fly to center. Dockery walked, and Miller scored when Tuft's catcher tried (unsuccessfully) to throw Dockery out stealing second...
...stock was too rough to hold them. But the police did discover a palmprint from Oswald on a section of the barrel attached to the stock. Said the Commission: "Oswald's palmprint on the underside of the barrel demonstrates that he handled the rifle when it was disassembled." A tuft of cotton fibers ? blue, grey-black and orange-yellow ? was found clinging to the rifle butt. Under microscopic examination, the fibers matched those in a shirt that Oswald had worn the day of the assassination...
Each kidney contains a million filtration units called nephrons. Each nephron is made up of a tuft of microscopic blood vessels, called a glomerulus, and each of these has a minute tubule at tached (see diagram, right). When blood flows into the glomeruli and around the tubules, one-fifth of its water content is led aside for finer filtration. One hundredth part of this is extracted and passes eventually to the bladder...
...hair tuft is always offered in such a way that the female cannot nibble it without bringing her four sensitive antennae in contact with microscopic pores in the male's shell. Through the pores seeps a subtle substance that is absorbed by the female's antennae and affects her central nervous system, raising a wild excitement...