Word: zoologists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pursuit in 1928, after more than 25 years spent in fighting the Empire's battles, from skirmishes in India to the trenches of World War I. Instead of retiring to his London town house, which bristles with lion and panther heads, he teamed up with his young cousin, Zoologist Theresa Clay, and mounted an offensive against the Mallophaga. He and Theresa believe that the lice can be used as a small-scale model of animal evolution...
...Clever Guests. When the first birds appeared some 130 million years ago, say the colonel and Zoologist Clay, they offered an "unoccupied ecological niche": i.e., a place where some organism might manage to scratch out a living. Almost at once an ancient louse moved in, finding the feathers and skin debris a convenient source of food. As the early birds evolved into separate species, their lice evolved too, adapting themselves cleverly to each change in their hosts. Penguins have their lice; so do skylarks and ostriches. The extinct dodo and giant moa were undoubtedly lousy...
...Zoologist Bivouacked in the piny hills near the Han early last week, the 25th Division had its hands full digging in for the expected Chinese assault. But for the buddies of Corporal William Old even the din of Communist whistles and bugles was hardly more terrifying than his tales of poisonous mollusks, leopards, bears and 1,500-lb. Manchurian tigers roaming the Korean countryside. The fascinated G.I.s had good reason to believe that baby-faced "Buster" Old knew what he was talking about...
Youngest member of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, Buster Old, a 23-year-old photo-lab technician in the Army's Signal Corps, has been an amateur zoologist since childhood, is now a highly respected, unofficial investigator for the Smithsonian Institution. Ever since August, the Smithsonian's molluskmen have been expectantly watching the mails for the tobacco tins, metal film containers and glass medicine bottles in which he has sent them nearly 500 specimens of Korean frogs, lizards, snakes, crayfish and snails...
...same time he finds villainy of all kinds wildly entertaining. He is convinced that man's inhumanity to man-whether expressed in a simple hotfoot or an atomic explosion- is the basis of all humor, and he can discuss grafters, murderers and wife-beaters as delightedly as a zoologist describing a sporty specimen of toad or bloodworm. Capp is a large-framed, large-headed, exuberant man with a shock of black hair, bottomless energy and a bullfrog voice. He often climaxes a denunciation of some awful piece of skulduggery by bursting into ribald laughter and bawling, "Charming! Charming...