Word: constrictor
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...foreign aid grain, reminding me that three hundred miles away there was a drought and people were starving. But life in the big city goes on as always. Abidjan's sidewalk cafes were full of people drinking and fending off the hordes of peddlars, who sell anything from boa constrictor skins to nose-rings, and have cousins in every port...
Among the more outlandish guests in TIME homes are a toad, Pierrot, kept by Deputy Chief of Correspondents Benjamin Cate's children, two raccoons belonging to Senior Editor Marshall Loeb's daughter, Margaret, and Picture Editor John Durniak's boa constrictor, Charlie. Legends about TIME pets breed like rabbits. Show Business Secretary Esther Nichols' parakeet, Rosebud, is said to have been rescued from an attempted suicide after diving from a fifth-floor window overlooking Madison Avenue, while Copy Desk Assistant Judith Paul's late Chihuahua-terrier crossbreed, Cookie, was known to hunt bees, crack walnuts...
Messing, who gained notice at Harvard for keeping a boa constrictor in his room and eating a wine glass to demonstrate his "true grit," said the venture was "strictly a business deal. I figured the publicity and money would be good...
...regional set-up gathers in its charges like an overprotective mother hen (or a maternal boa constrictor) from the five surrounding towns: Kennebunk, Kennebunkport, Goose Rocks Beach, Arundel, and Kennebunk Beach. For at least the last ten years the towns have been debating whether or not to build a new school...
...time, he was deeply involved with another woman, yet suddenly was "expected to prove that I was a man." That was only the first shock. The second was discovering that Destinn had a tattoo of a boa constrictor circling her leg from the ankle to the upper thigh. "I am afraid I was not at my best that night, but she seemed not to mind...