Word: wildes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...immediately bought her a big charcoal-broiled steak. There was a wild, backwoods look about him. He seldom wore socks and liked to take his shoes off when he ate; he enjoyed wiggling his enormous toes and grinding ice cubes between his gargantuan molars. As time wore on, he sometimes borrowed money from her. But she loved him madly anyhow. She swore they had lived as husband and wife...
Mesons are mysterious, short-lived particles knocked out of .atomic nuclei. It takes a lot of punch to knock them out. Before the 4,000-ton cyclotron developed sufficient punch, the only mesons in captivity had been trapped in the wild. Dr. Carl Anderson of CalTech found their characteristic tracks in a cloud chamber. Other scientists found two types, heavy and light, in photographic plates exposed on high mountains. All had been formed by cosmic rays, the enormously powerful particles that strike down out of space. No man-pushed particle was strong enough to engender a single meson...
...South American nutria, a furry, aquatic, testy little wild animal, is a new U.S. resident. In the current issue of the Journal of Wildlife Management, Frank G. Ashbrook of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announces that nutrias have recently appeared in many parts of the U.S. -from Louisiana to Michigan and Oregon. They seem to be increasing and spreading rapidly...
Nutrias were once (about 1922) all but exterminated in their wild state, and South Americans tried to raise them. The animals multiplied all right, but their pelts in captivity proved almost worthless. U.S. nutria breeders had the same experience. In 1939, 50 pairs were released in Iberia Parish, La. (All they need for food is coarse marsh vegetation.) Next year one was found 65 miles away by water. By now, thriving in the wild, they have reached the delta of the Mississippi and crossed the state line into Texas. During the 1946-47 trapping season, the state of Louisiana collected...
...that divorces are all to frequent, and a few brief scenes are tossed in to show just how nasty' wealthy middle-aged couples can be to each other. MGM does not venture further than this. Instead, it presents a moderately dreary love story and allows Lana Turner to run wild. She wallops a home run in a softball game, gawks at a specimen of modern art in New York, loses her temper four times, and even leaps from a moving automobile. Through all of this, Spencer Tracy plows doggedly ahead. His scenes with a kitten--cats make him sneeze...