Word: zealander
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...habits of mosquitoes, though closely studied, are still a dark mystery. The males of a few species take their mates where they find them, just like less subtle insects. Among the Opifex fuscus of New Zealand, the males like their females young. They skim along the surface of stagnant water, watching downward intently and sometimes thrusting their heads below the surface. They are looking for female pupae about to become adult. When a pupa breaks the surface, the male tears open the pupa case and mates with the still-soft imago before it has fully emerged...
Besides this, members of the Key make up a volunteer guide brigade to show the University to visiting functionaries, who this year have ranged from a Brazilian radio commentator to the Chancellor of the University of New Zealand...
...Assembly was a resolution submitted by the U.S., Britain, France and China, asking that the Big Five voluntarily curb their veto power in the Security Council. To the little nations, who had spent a year drafting the resolution, it was the most important business on the agenda. New Zealand's Sir Carl Berendsen cried: "I would give my right hand for the success of this organization...
When a woolly mammoth died on the Siberian tundra, it sometimes fell into a quagmire. There the permafrost, operating like a modern freezer, preserved the carcass intact for thousands of years. In temperate New Zealand there was no permafrost but in South Island's Pyramid Valley paleontologists have found a good substitute. From about 18,000 B.C. until 2,-000 years ago, the valley contained a swamp whose lush vegetation attracted moas-great, flightless birds which weighed up to a quarter...
Many a moa perished in the ooze, which eventually got to be the consistency of jelly. This year, New Zealand scientists have dug up 57 moa skeletons from the gelatinous mass. One newsman referred to "Moas in aspic...