Word: cockroaches
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...grotesque and vicious caricature. TIME'S New York is one which dwells pointedly on its noise, crowding, aggressiveness, hellish glare at night, marijuana, cockroach-infested kitchens, tigerish and provocative women, obsession with the present, propensity to sneer at Philadelphia and jeer at Boston, and coolness to visitors...
...Cockroach Teaser. To check the theory Beck & Miles started with cockroaches, which wear their smellers conveniently on their antennae outside their bodies. They put oil of cloves vapor (attractive to cockroaches) behind a gas-tight window of material transparent to infrared. The cockroaches responded to it just about as strongly as if the barrier were not there. When a thin sheet of glass (opaque to infrared) was added to the barrier, the cockroaches showed no more interest in the window than when there was no oil of cloves behind...
Specialization. In Los Angeles, closed-shop contract demands were being made by the Flea, Tadpole, Worm, Cockroach, Rodent and Bird Trainers' Local of the Trainers and Handlers Union (A.F.L...
...sang Pancho Villa's ragged army in one of the most famous of all Latin American soldier songs. U.S. soldiers, better heeled than the cockroach, gave ear, took up the marijuana habit. Later they smoked the reefers in Panama, and when World War II took them to bases in Ecuador, the hop habit they brought was the answer to a medicine man's prayers...
...cockroach, the cockroach, Doesn't want to travel on, Because she hasn't, oh no, she hasn't, Marijuana for to smoke...