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...What letter of the alphabet did pirates banish in a children's book by James Thurber? Name the book...
Sledgehammer v. Gnat. The Department of Agriculture is trying to banish the fire ant. But its latest plan for doing it is under sharp attack by three conservationist groups-the Environmental Defense Fund, the National Wildlife Federation and CLEAN (Committee for Leaving the Environment of America Natural). The Department's program calls for discharging 450 million pounds of a bait containing 1,350,000 lbs. of Mirex-a powerful chlorinated hydrocarbon-on 150 million acres of land in nine Southern states. In a suit filed in U.S. district court in Washington, D.C., "on behalf of all citizens...
...begun a poster campaign advising passersby to banish the "munchies" with an Omnivare sandwich...
...misconceptions of whites, and the continual confusing of the black American's racial background with his individual culture. Most of all, I refer to the recurring fantasy of solving one basic problem of American democracy by getting "shut" of the blacks through various wishful schemes that would banish them from the nation's bloodstream, from its social structure, and from its conscience and historical consciousness...
Flash: the Department of Agriculture has just discovered how to banish pests without lethal insecticides like DDT. "Beer, either fresh or stale," reports the department's recent newsletter, "is substantially superior to other bait compounds used to control slugs, one of the most troublesome pests infesting farms, gardens and greenhouses...