Word: twig
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...Manhattan's Russian Tea Room on a lunch break, Hoffman-still in costume and makeup-stopped by the table of an old friend, Public Relations Man John Springer. Dustin introduced himself as Dorothy Michaels, an aspiring post-ingénue from Kansas City. Says Springer, who did not twig to the put-on: "I knew there was something fascinating about the woman. I just didn't know what...
...face of John Harvard in front of University Hall wore a mask of snow, with stones for eyes and mouth and a twig in place of a stogie...
...bowerbirds rank among the most intricately amatory of avians. Some build bowers up to 8 ft. high and paint them with berry juice, using a twig as a brush. The structure serves as erotic artwork rather than as a love nest. If a female is won over, she will build a drabber, more functional nest...
...Actor Roger Hanin, who accompanied the President on the familiar trek: "It was just about the same as it always has been?except that there were more journalists this time." Dressed casually in a sports shirt and a navy-blue cap, brandishing a walking stick, chewing occasionally on a twig, Mitterrand made his way up the steep path with the same air of equanimity, quiet confidence and determination that had marked his 16-year pursuit of the presidency...
...German dictator in the hope that at least one of them will seize power and conquer the world. Though the cloning of human beings is likely to be confined to fantasy for decades-perhaps forever-other kinds of cloning have long been possible. The Greek word klon means twig, and the simplest kind of vegetable cloning consists of cultivating cuttings from a plant. By the mid-1950s scientists had succeeded in cloning amphibians, producing frogs that were genetically identical to each other and carried the inherited characteristics of only a single parent. Most animal cloning has been done by transplanting...