Word: crustacean
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...What, Old Top?" The amazing thing is that this "formidable old crustacean," as John Gunther dubbed him, survived the war in Washington. King started by disliking General George Marshall, his opposite number in the Army, though he later found much to admire in him. He bucked Secretary Frank Knox. He distrusted and openly fought Secretary Forrestal. He was proud to find himself a minority of one at an allied conference-"King contra mundum...
...reported that there seems to be no limit to the depths that life can sink. His men dredged the bottom of the Mindanao trench, the deepest part (35,400 ft.) of the ocean, never explored before. They hauled up 17 sea anemones, 61 sea cucumbers, two mollusks and one crustacean. All were comparatively fragile creatures, but they did not seem to mind living in darkness and cold more than six miles down, where the water pressure is more than seven tons a square inch...
...Jenkins did not yet seem wholly convinced. But except for some loud ranting by California's rampageous Bertrand W. Gearhart and some quiet sniping by New York's crustacean Daniel A. Reed, the Republicans generally seemed relaxed. At this point renewal looked like a safe bet. Economic isolationism might still have a strong hold on the Jenkinses of the U.S., but it was clear that the nation, however slowly, was marching carefully ahead on a path toward participation in the outside world...
Worried Britons learned last week that the indomitable Winston Churchill, who was 68 last November, had snorted, heaved and fought his way through a mild but dangerous attack of pneumonia. Said the Evening Standard: "The most crustacean of Mr. Churchill's critics will join in the rejoicing at the news. . . . The anxiety of the past few days has not received much public attention but it has been widely and deeply felt...
Daphnia magna is an almost-microscopic, transparent, fresh-water crustacean that looks something like a very intelligent, infinitesimal shrimp. But for medical researchers Daphnia has other charms than looks: under the influence of low concentrations of drugs such as strychnine or nicotine in the water, Daphnia swims erratically, does loop-the-loops; as concentrations increase, Daphnia gets convulsions, swims on its back, goes into a coma, dies...