Word: yawned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With as many as 40 leads into the brain of a single monkey, Dr. Delgado has found that by passing a current through different parts of the cortex, he can stimulate a resting monkey to raise his paws, scratch himself, turn around, yawn, or start trying to catch imaginary insects. In some monkeys he stimulated the lateral hypothalamus for an hour a day, and the animals ate up to ten times as much as usual. A few days after stimulation is stopped, the monkeys' appetites go back to normal. The seat of a monkey's love for bananas...
Manhattan's Communist Daily Worker has been in financial trouble for so long that even its most devoted readers yawn at the cries for help. But last week the cry of "wolf" had a convincing ring to it. Said a boldface box covering Page One: "We are at the end of all resources. Our printers' bill has piled up, and he cannot go without payment . . . We must receive at least $5,000 in the next few days if we are to be able to continue, and $10,000 by the end of next week. We ask that every...
...most experimental selection, by Peter Sourian, is the most disappointing. An awkward, stilted, and needlessly repetitious monologue, Class and Dramatic Too is not only boring but anti-climactic. Although Sourian is willing to sacrifice readability for one simple effect--the loneliness of the speaker--the result is a yawn...
...Southern leaders have not risen up in anger. Their inclination is to yawn, keep their congressional seniority in the party of their fathers and, perhaps, let Ike carry their states...
...stretch-out in the arms program began to look like a yawn-out. The military, which had been placing orders at a $5-billion-a-month clip last October and had planned to settle down to $4 billion a month, was now issuing contracts for only $2.8 billion a month. Actual deliveries of military goods, instead of increasing, were running at a rate of only $2 billion a month, unchanged since last September. Furthermore, though the U.S. was expected to run a deficit of $14 billion this fiscal year, it was temporarily running a cash surplus-another deflationary factor...