Word: burrowings
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When the sun has set, the guardian ants come out of the burrow and climb into the bush. They inspect every twig and leaf, looking for marauders, especially the fierce, predatory ants that infest the pinewoods and would quickly slaughter the caterpillars. When Ross put spiders or beetles on the bushes, the protecting ants found them at once and quickly dragged them away. About 7:30 p.m., the caterpillar is let out of its burrow. Shepherded by the carpenter ants, it climbs to the topmost leaves of the bush and starts feeding greedily. The ants climb aboard and drink...
...This way, no one has time to write lengthy memos, which Thornton does not like to read. In fact, if Litton's experience is any guide, one of the happiest aspects of the technological revolution may be the death of the kind of organization man who tries to burrow into a safe, obscure niche, far from the dangers of difficult decisions. There are no such niches at Litton...
...wiggly tailed, microscopic larva that lives out its life as an unwelcome hitchhiker in both snails* and man. Hatched in fresh water, the schistosomal larva must invade a snail within about 24 hours or die. After weeks of development and change in the snail, the larvae move on and burrow into a human body, where they mature and mate in the bloodstream. Then they settle down to years devoted to depositing eggs in vital organs. The adult parasites live in an almost constant state of copulation and the female can produce up to 3,000 eggs...
...will be because, though small As measured against the All, I have been so instinctively thorough About my crevice and burrow...
...Harvard long afford or oft allow itself to be surpassed in such essential learning? In the vermicular vernacular, can we afford to burrow from the realities around us and transmogrify the liberal epistemology? O never never--the government is with us and the populace demands it: let us enter in the new planarian world...