Word: constrictor
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Naturalist William Beebe, 72, who once broke his leg in Venezuela and sat quietly while a five-foot boa constrictor slithered across it, admitted that he was getting a little old for jungle expeditions and bathysphere trips to the ocean depths. Having bought a house overlooking a naturalist's paradise in Trinidad, he said he would now be able to study nature in comfort: "No more of that half-a-mile-down-in-the-sea ... I'd rather be warm...
...foot boa constrictor slithered out of the Panama jungle one night last week, writhed up a high-tension-line tower along the Panama Railroad track, then glided onto a cable. Forty-four thousand volts surged through the serpent in a whoosh of flame, cremated it within two watch-ticks. As the boa's charred body tumbled down, lights blinked off for a quarter hour along the Pacific side of the Canal Zone. Power failed for three minutes at the great locks of the Panama Canal, then surged back as automatic emergency equipment went to work. It was the Canal...