Word: zebra
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fair, help visitors get around its spacious preserve. The Bronx has the greatest variety of species, and some of the greatest oddities. Its bongo, a reddish antelope with white rings around its middle, is the only one in captivity. Its okapi, built like a giraffe in front and a zebra behind, is the only one in the U.S. This spring the Bronx made a big splash with the importation of three duck-billed platypuses, the first to be brought to the U.S. from Australia since...
...many years Huxley was director of the London Zoo, took a lion cub along to one of his Christmas lectures at the Royal Institution. During the blitz he helped corner a zebra that escaped when a bomb scored a direct hit on the Zoo. As a "safety valve" for his scientific work, Huxley writes intellectual doggerel (sample lines: And heavenly matter Is mad as a hatter -Just atoms daemonic, A dance electronic...
Among venerable establishments like the Three Hussars, the Crooked Lantern and Aunt Resi's, Broadwayish nightclubs sprouted. Racily named Esquire, Zebra and Heidebo, they offered in neat, cultural synthesis U.S.-style jazz and Viennese-style wine (instead of hard liquor...
...double-breasted blue suit and zebra-striped tie, George waved to those he knew, graciously passed around a typed list of all his business connections, and sat down. He was on the board of Victor Emanuel's Aviation Corp., Tom Girdler's Republic Steel, altogether more than a score of corporations. His annual income: "Call it about $50,000 a year." He also belonged to the American Red Cross and the Boy Scouts of America and was an honorary deacon in Elder Solomon Lightfoot Michaux's Negro Church...
...purpose. They were afraid the invaders would be driven into the sea and they would have only death and destruction and the Germans again. Later, when they saw the masses of men and weapons streaming through the countryside and looked up through the dust at the skies full of zebra-striped planes, they decided that the Allies were here to stay and waited to see what kind of people they were...