Word: arachnid
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Mercedes McCambridge, offstage, is a candid person, kind, attractive, unsophisticated, and without visible defenses. But onstage or on-camera, she can somehow suggest the sort of skirted arachnid that bites through everything in its path. Two weeks ago, Mercy McCambridge took over from Uta Hagen, playing opposite Donald Davis, as the harridan in Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? With this new, brown-eyed, waspish savage, the producers have probably added a year...
...teacher should) will begin to see the tower as something other than the beacon of American education. Behind the window slits, vaulted ports, and bulging bastions, grey-green scaly orks will lurk, whispering in the Black Speech, plotting hideous amusements. Hulking trolls will patrol the moat. Shelob, the monstrous arachnid, will have spun her webs among the stairways, ducts, and circuits of the "service perimeter." On the battlements will wait the flying Nazgul, their piercing cries cutting across the Common...
Loxosceles laeta, a poisonous arachnid native to South America, may have left its home in Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology, but then again...
...arachnid is related to the "brown spider" known as a public nuisance in Kansas and Oklahoma. How Loxosceles Laeta arrived here and how far it has spread is unknown, since it resembles certain domestic spiders...
...would yearn for a rare arachnid, the Duke still hankered after peace. Succeeding to the title (and an estate valued for death duties at $18,600,000), he continued his propagandizing. As a gesture against the "militarism" of the Church of England, last winter he stopped paying $1,280 a year to support the ducal church on his estate in Bedfordshire and the rents of two neighboring vicarages. He also refused to donate the iron railings of his London properties for scrap iron to be made into tanks...