Word: chews
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Denley Chew '87, president of the Harvard Asian-American Association, refused to comment...
...Asian administrators. That's a concern of ours," said Denley Chew '87, president of the Asian American Association, a student group...
...This isn't mass hysteria, it's frightened, unified parents," says Annette Maiorana, a Queens mother who kept her eight-year-old out of school last week. "In school, kids share their milk, they share sandwiches, they spit at each other. There's urine on the toilet seats. They chew on a pencil and give it to a friend. I have a little one ready to go to preschool, and it's frightening...
...worse they will get as they become more numerous. Over at the cafe the morning crowd is discussing how to do them in. Squashing them between thumb and forefinger was held to be effective but unaesthetic. A stick was recommended for bashing them. Since the adult cicadas do not chew leaves, only contact poisons will kill them, and the effectiveness of various kinds was being hotly debated. Some of the official types have been recommending dusting them with serious insecticides, but one of the coffee drinkers remembered the local state forester had said that that could cause increased levels...
About 20 consumers and computer magazine editors put Polaroid to the test by heaping indignities on their disks. Staffers at one computer journal poured a hot-fudge sundae on theirs. Another publication sent Polaroid a floppy covered with mustard, catsup and relish. One disk had been used as a chew toy by a golden retriever. In all those cases, Polaroid was able to clean the disk or electronically transfer the user's work to fresh floppies. The only disk that was less than 100% salvageable was one that a user had sabotaged by riddling it with staples...