Word: barkings
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...keep it down with trapping. It has eaten my beans and peas and has stripped the bark and branches off 50 young trees. It can stand up on its hind feet and reach more than two feet into the air to snap off small limbs." The voracious creature that stirred the Australian orchardist to complain to the Maitland Pastures Protection Board seemed fearsome indeed. But it was easily identified. After having been nearly down and out Down Under, the wild rabbit is staging an ominous and increasingly destructive comeback...
...skeptical surgeon was backed up by Houston Botanist Robert Vines in a terse explanation. "Sam Morse's tree," he said, "is simply an ordinary Leucaena pulverulenta, better known as an Acacia, a Lead-tree or a Great Lead-tree. When the bark ruptures on this kind of tree, the pressure inside the tree's vessels forces its abundant supply of sap to run through the opening...
...loudly. France confiscates automobiles that repeat noise violations. The rubber, plastic-or leather-guarded garbage can is commonplace in London, Paris and Berlin-an improvement that could hush Manhattan's most characteristic and deafening early-morning sound. Bermuda has instituted the quiet motorbike. Outboard motors are losing their bark; truck mufflers that kill the roar are available...
...weeks ago, Gordon's successor as Finance Minister, Mitchell Sharp, added bite to that bark by introducing a bill in Parliament that would have the effect of prohibiting any Canadian bank with more than 25% foreign ownership from having more than $200 million in assets. If it is passed, which is far from certain, the bill would immediately apply to only one institution: the Mercantile Bank of Canada (assets: $222 million), which is wholly owned by New York's First National City Bank. For the future, another provision of the legislation would also effectively bar any other foreign...
Disillusioned words like bullets bark As human gods aim for the mark, Make everything from toy-guns that To flesh-colored Christs that glow in the it's easy to see without looking too far That not much is really sAorEd ("It's Allright) John the Baptist, after torturing a thief, Looks up at his hero, the commander-in-chief, Saying "Tell me, great hero, but please make it brief, Is there a hole for me to get sick in? ("Tombstone...