Word: cockroach
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...that is doing the shooting, all this is his privilege; but he acts the same way when he is merely an employee. In Hold Back the Dawn, he played a European refugee trying to get into the U.S. from Mexico. The script called for him to address a passing cockroach bitterly, saying: "Where do you think you're going? Have you a visa...
...only regular-season game Royal's infantrymen have lost in three years was an 0-6 squeaker to Texas Christian in 1961. "T.C.U. is like a cockroach," Royal complained then. "It isn't what he eats or carries off, but what he falls into and messes up." For five straight weeks this season, Texas has ranked as the nation's No. 1 college team, and last week it avenged that lone T.C.U. defeat by holding T.C.U. to 34 yds. on the ground while Texas Quarterback Duke Carlisle mixed straightforward runs with pass-option plays to gain...
...floor of the prison cell, the cockroach struggles frantically to escape its burning bed of straw. "Confess you're not a saint," shouts one convict hovering over the minuscule pyre, "or else the fire of heaven will consume your flesh amid hideous sufferings." Cries another: "Confess that the Prince of Evil has appeared to you and seduced you, but that you see the light and that repentance floods your heart." But the roach says nothing and goes up in flames. "She's damned. God forgive...
...recently-molted cockroach sports a shiny new chitin shell, but he's still an ugly bug. The tower of education's "massive walls and large windowless areas" shone like alabaster in the reproduction. In fact they will be the familiar mottled red, broken most months by bare, scraggly Ivy vines. Before many years in the local air, the red will lose its luster, the mortar will turn dull grey...
...their lives while the males take no further notice of them. But each female that has mated with a sterilized male lays only infertile eggs. If most of the males in a given locality have been sterilized, then most of the females will have no living offspring, and the cockroach population will plunge toward zero. The same unsporting trick, say the Beltsville scientists, should work on other insects that use sex perfumes, including bollworms, army worms and corn borers...