MAMMALS
THE 1950s
5-SYLLABLE WORDS
U.S.A.
Cooking
100

Hares living in cold regions are usually brown in the summer & this color in winter

white

100

A reproduction of this famous ship sailed from Plymouth, England to Mass. in 1957

the Mayflower

100

It's what the "E" stands for in EPA

Environmental

100

Dunes of white gypsum rise in White Sands National Monument in this state

New Mexico

100

The Chinese used to eat the larvae of these thread spinners fried in oil

silkworms

200

The bushy-tailed wood rat is also called this, from its habit of collecting things

a pack rat

200

Testifying before a Senate committee in 1957, Teamster pres. Dave Beck invoked this some 80 time

the 5th Amendment

200

Type of illness whose physical symptoms are real but whose source is menta

psychosomatic

200

Fiddletown, Rough & Ready, Poverty Hill & Chinese Camp were towns in this state's "Gold Country"

California

200

Traditionally the brown type of this is used in making the Mexican fudge-like candy called penuche

sugar

300

Sad to relate, a blue whale usually yields about 120 barrels of this

oil

300

In April 1955, for the 1st time in 33 years of publication, Reader's Digest carried these

advertisements

300

Name of the group singing the following:

"Cherish is the word I use to describe..."

The Association

300

Only state that borders 4 Mexican states

Texas

300

Using a cloth cover on your rolling pin prevents dough from doing this

salmonellasticking to the pin 

400

These form the basic diet of aardvarks

ants

400

Occupation of William Howard Mays that put him in the news

playing baseball

400

For a secretary, they might be:
the ability to type 70 wpm, take shorthand & work on a word processor

qualifications

400

The states named for the Sioux word for "friend" or "ally"

North & South Dakota

400

Cookbooks suggest flavoring these fanciest of French fungi with Madeira wine

truffles

500

A brown horse with a black mane,
tail & points,
or a body of water

a bay

500

This industrialist sold RKO Pictures to General Tire in July 1955

Howard Hughes

500

The guillotine inflicted death by this means

decapitation

500

Rocky Mountain state named for a valley in Pennsylvania

Wyoming

500

Graham flour is another name for this type of flour

whole wheat flour

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