Word: stalked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kwajalein an alert officer stumbled on a neat, deserted hut. On the earth floor lay a plant stalk, with a carefully burned-out message in Marshallese. The officer picked it up, tied it carefully to his pack, said impressively: "A secret message to some...
Admiral the Lord Louis Mountbatten, handsome, debonair Allied chief for Southeast Asia, slapped in the left eye by a stalk of bamboo while on a jeep tour of the Burma front, was treated for a minor face...
...Planned Parenthood (see cut), in which one fetus knits booties while another fetus thoughtfully soaks up vitamins from a stalk of celery...
...STALK THE HUNTER -Mitchell Wilson -Simon & Schuster ($2). The crowded U.S. career of a pretty young Czechoslovak girl who found Manhattan a roller coaster of murder, hairbreadth escapes, breakneck chases. A capital spy story, adroitly worked out and crammed with action...
Duration, Not Intensity. Professor Bissonnette concludes that all this proves that the pituitary gland, which lies at the base of the brain, is affected by light transmitted by the optic nerve. He points out that if an animal's optic stalk (connecting the eye and the brain) is cut, the animal will change its breeding season. He also found that the intensity of light seems to make little difference; what counts is its duration. The pituitary gland apparently is also stimulated by color: red light, for example, moves starlings to mate more than any other...