Word: viperous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...kindly Dr. Chapman explains to Zimbalist that while they seem to have stumbled on a viper's nest of marital maladjustment in their California research, figures show that most U.S. wives are actually awfully good sorts, and the latest local sampling should not be taken too seriously. Neither should The Chapman Report...
...pain for two days. Love among the serpents is pretty snaky. Rival males get all intertwined in a knot. "Nobody knows how the winner wins, or why," but the suitors are good sports-they never bite each other. The snake with the deadliest bite is the Gaboon viper, a hideous flat-headed creature whose two-inch fangs can bring agonizing death in three seconds...
...before Troy was the aftermath of a quarrel over the daughter of Chryses, high priest of the tiny island's temple of Apollo. Another famed Greek warrior, the archer Philoctetes, never got beyond Chryse; stopping off there on his way to Troy, Philoctetes was fatally bitten by a viper loosed on him, according to legend, by a local nymph whose advances he had spurned. But after that, mythology's Baedeker records little of Chryse, and some time about 240 B.C. the island mysteriously disappeared -sunk under the Aegean, so historians conjectured, by one of the earthquakes common...