Word: bitingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Occasional Bite. For five years Holloway and Huffaker tempted the weevil with other plants. They found that the worst the weevils would do was to take an occasional bite out of alfalfa or flax if there was no puncture weed around, but they also discovered that the weevil's larvae could only grow in the pods of puncture vines. Convinced that the weevils were safe enough for large-scale experiments, the biologists imported 15 from Italy early this year and turned them loose to feast on a private garden of puncture weed. Now they have a crop of more...
Floating Pencils. Unlike Gagarin and Titov, the two cosmonauts ate solid food -bite-size chunks of veal cutlet, chicken, sandwiches and pastries. "It was just as pleasant as a good restaurant," recalled Nikolayev when he landed, and, depending on his knowledge of Russian restaurants, he may have meant what he said...
...another pet Kennedy proposal seemed about to bite the dust. He was just not having any luck with taxes...
Sandhurst-trained David Niven never lets down the light comedy side of officership. As Blasi, Sordi lacks comic bite, and tends to be more laughed at than with. Director de Laurentiis seems to abide by some central-casting Geneva Convention that national stereotypes are immutable. The English are natty, tightlipped, unflappable. The Italians are sloppy, openhearted, fidgety. The film is unflaggingly amiable, and a few of the older moviegoers may be nagged by the recollection that the real thing was less jolly...
Coconuts & Canoes. Filariasis infects some 190 million people in the tropics. In the Pacific it is contracted from the bite of a mosquito, which deposits microscopic juvenile forms of a nematode, Wuchereria bancrofti, in the skin. In the human victim, the roundworms mature to a length of 1½ in. to 3 in. They live and multiply almost exclusively in lymph nodes, especially the big nodes in the arm pits, groin and scrotum. Their tiny offspring are picked up from a victim's bloodstream by a feeding mosquito-soon to infect another victim...