Word: clench
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Dates: during 1952-1952
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...Yorkers alarmed by reports over the weekend that a plague of alien snails had descended upon the Central Park lake, were reassured yesterday by William J. Clench, curator of mollusks, who identified the species as harmless and 100 percent American...
...They've probably been in the lake for thousands of years." Clench said, "but nobody ever worried about them before...
Public anxiety was aroused, he explained, because of recent scare stories abouta giant Pacific small, introduced by the Japanese into Guam and Saipan for food purposes during the war. The Pacific snails multiplied like rabbits but their danger to crops has been over-rated, Clench said...