Word: dens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nixon's resignation speech: "It was not the speech of a President who had violated his constitutional oath and duty by obstructing justice, by abusing the power of his office, by transforming the Oval Office into a mean den where perjury and low scheming became a way of life...
...particularly unpleasant kind of unofficial intimidation is something the Swedes call den kungliga Svenska avundsjukan (the royal Swedish envy): a near universal disapproval of anyone who jumps too far outside the norm, either in the quantity of his material possessions or, by extension, the quality of his ideas. It is, moreover, nearly impossible for anyone to hide from a neighbor's scrutiny: all income-tax data, birth records and other personal documents are matters of public information, available for inspection at public records offices...
...effective that it classified it "top secret," and first used it against a typhus epidemic in Naples, Italy, in 1943. It worked so well that the military promptly began applying DDT against a wide variety of insects responsible for spreading malaria, typhus, cholera and encephalitis. Says Berkeley's Van den Bosch (who now opposes widespread reliance on chemical insecticides): "DDT was beautiful. It was cheap and it killed just about everything...
...major result of overreliance on insecticides is what Van den Bosch calls a "pesticide treadmill," in which growers use larger amounts of pesticides each year at greater cost to achieve a degree of control. Says he: "You can't beat insects with insecticides, and we are only fooling ourselves if we think we can. They are too adaptable. They have tremendous genetic plasticity. They are prolific as hell and they are mobile. They can move if they have...
...only question to ponder in Something's Afoot is which guest at a mid-'30s English country manor will be stiffed next, and how. Will the hilarious mode of demise be an exploding balus trade, a poisoned dart, a lethally hid den gas vent or what? As for plot, the maze is the message...