Word: agaric
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...plan for Neurospora was to try to create strains that differ from the normal mold in simple, chemical ways. Their method was simple, too. They irradiated mold with X rays to induce mutations. Then they gathered spores formed by sexual reproduction and laid them out on a sheet of agar jelly containing the minimum nutrients that natural wild mold requires. Some of the spores sprouted and grew normally, showing that they had not been mutated in any obvious way. Some were dead, perhaps mutated too much...
...sprouted hopefully but did not grow. These were the interesting spores. They acted as if they were trying to grow, but needed something that they could not get from the agar or produce for themselves. So when a microscope showed such a spore, it was tenderly fed with vitamins, amino acids and other growth-fostering chemicals in hope of making it perk up and grow normally...
...London, the Daily Sketch reported that Princess Margaret would marry a faithful escort and bachelor-in-waiting, Billy Wallace, British-born stepson of U.S. Author Herbert Agar and heir to an iron-and-coal fortune. But Billy and Buckingham Palace denied the report. Meanwhile, down in Venezuela, a faithful escort of yesteryear, R.A.F. Group Captain Peter Townsend, was surprised by a photographer while at breakfast aboard a Japanese freighter in the port of La Guaira. After tossing a plateful of fried eggs and chips, rolls and jelly at the man, Townsend recovering his aplomb, said, tightlipped...
This fatal hesitancy got him shot to death in his first picture, and he meets the same end in his current film. Undoubtedly, he will be revived and shot to death another time. Between screams, Lori Nelson unfortunately has enough breath left to engage John Agar in just about the limpest dialogue since the invention of talking pictures...
...During the campaign, both candidates made use of ghosts. Some of Stevenson's: Herbert Agar, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Archibald Mac-Leish, Bernard DeVoto. Samuel Rosenman. James Wechsler. Some of Eisenhower's: Stanley High, Gabriel Hauge, C. D. Jackson, Emmet Hughes...