Word: cockroach
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...entomologist has been studying the behavior and taxonomy of numerous cockroach species for more than 40 years, the last six of which he has spent working on the fourth floor of the MCZ. Before coming to Harvard in 1982, Roth headed the Army's Entomology Research Group in Natick, where he pioneered many of the basic studies on the behavior of these insects, which have been in existance for more than 300 million years. One recent morning, Roth discussed his four decades with cockroaches, explaining his work and peppering his reminiscences with humorous anecdotes about his days with the army...
Unlike Brown and Yale, Murphy has all the right moves. It's just that he's been about as lucky as a cockroach in a Raid factory...
...rejected standard careers to design the really far out and then, in an even more radical break with modern architectural practice, get out the saws, hammers and nails and build these unusual structures themselves. Since their first project, a child's play structure built to resemble an enormous cockroach, they've painstakingly assembled twelve houses, from San Francisco to New Hampshire, parking tents, trailers or makeshift cardboard homes on site so they could live there as they worked, encouraging clients to pick up hammers and join them on weekends, and throwing parties in partly built houses to celebrate the completion...
...says the Other, eyeing a cockroach. "You go chase those papers, man. But be careful you don't catch any, those bastards get mean when you pin 'em down." So saying, he hurls the ladle at the insect which scampers under...
Many of the musicians have lived on the streets, Buchanan said. All sang about poverty--sometimes humorously, in songs like Kenny Holiday's "Cockroach Blues," while others were more serious...