Word: ant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fifth gold medal for his Complete Poems, judged the book published in the last five years "most likely to attain the stature of a classic." Speaking to 300 breakfast guests, he became flustered for a moment and couldn't remember the opening lines of his famous poem about ants in a hive burying a fellow ant, which concludes...
...Ant. The genus Harpagomyia preys on ants. The mosquito alights in front of an ant and holds it tightly with its forelegs. After a while the ant opens its mouth. The mosquito inserts its proboscis and sucks up food which the ant squeezes from its stomach. Both parties seem to enjoy this interchange. The mosquito vibrates its wings with pleasure; the shmoo-like ant caresses the mosquito's proboscis with its palpi...
...Mother, God & the U.S." This week, for the first time since Dom Pedro's visit, another Brazilian chief of state was due in the U.S. During his ten-day stay, President Eurico Caspar Dutra, accompanied by his son António João Dutra, his daughter-in-law, and his naval aide Raul Reis, will be the guest of Harry Truman, whom he entertained in Rio in 1947. He will address a joint session of Congress, lay a wreath on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier, spend three days in Manhattan, and fly south to inspect...
...wrote a critic, "Maeterlinck discerned signs of an inevitable decadence of the human race . . . According to him, 2,000 years hence human relations will have declined to the level of life in a termite colony." The insects whose lives he studied for years seemed better off than people. "The ant is far less unhappy," wrote Maeterlinck, "than the very happiest...
Johnny Rockwell salvaged 18 import- ant points for the visitors to tie Chuck Whalen of Brown for runner-up honors. Frank Mahoney, top-heavy Brown center, was held to only 12 points by Ed Smith's fine guarding...