Word: cocoon
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...Stevenson) who proposes to revise Bogart's face beyond the Law's recognition. For several reels more, the hero is visible only as an actor staging efficient silhouettes in a dark suit, his head masked in a glaring white, highly photogenic bandage. When at last this surrealist cocoon is peeled off to reveal nothing but Bogart, it is bound to be a little anticlimactic-but not too much. Bogart knows his way perfectly around this sort of plot. He finds out who murdered his wife and his best friend (he is accused of murdering them), disposes...
...their eagerness to outstrip their rivals, the Japs had dreamed up some strange mésalliances. Chinese and Japanese silkworms, once bitter enemies, were being urged to kiss and make up. Two Chinese strains had produced a promising cocoon called "Airplane No. 1" (developed for wartime parachutes but never used). But, like most silkworms, he was finicky. Out of the laboratory, he evinced a strong distaste for barnyard smells, changes in room temperature. U.S. Military Government silk experts were keeping a paternal eye on a new cloth developed by a farmer in Nagano prefecture, but the Nagano worm seemed unwilling...
...many undergraduates in the year 1946, a copy of the Crimson was a new and peculiar object, a suspicious offspring of the wartime cocoon (label: Harvard Service News) from which the Crime burst in 16-page auspiciousness on April...
...barrel-chested populator of Frogner Park was a mystic, a recluse, and a scoffer at all art-except his own. Largely self-taught. Sculptor Vigeland emerged, in 1905, from a cocoon of starvation and obscurity, to receive a prize beyond the wildest dreams of patron-seekers. The Norwegian Government had agreed to commission him with a carte blanche...
Comforting Cocoon...