Word: droppings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Anopheles (only the female sucks blood, transmits malaria) is a shy creature of habit. Except in a few areas, she does no hunting outdoors, seeks her victims in their homes. She slips unobtrusively into a hut, rests a while on a wall, buzzes down to gorge herself on a drop of blood (often, in the process, infecting her victim with the parasites in her saliva), then rests on a wall before heading out. In a dwelling whose walls have been sprayed with DDT, these pauses are her undoing. As long as six months after a spraying, there is enough...
...sale of magazines plummets about 25 per cent according to Diamadopoulos. "The New Yorker, Reporter, the most sophisticated ones, drop down considerably," he said, and added that the circulation of the Sunday New York Times fell by 35 per cent this week. There was little change in the sale of Playboy...
...When the Marschallin suggests that she will one day end the affair, and easily, "this is really the last straw for him. [He thinks.] 'Hasn't she ever loved me?' ...He doesn't understand this woman at all." On the Marschallin: "She has not a drop of sentimentality in her whole makeup, not at all. Always she has this humorous superiority which carries her through everything...She knows that now the hour has come that Octavian will leave her. It has come a little bit earlier than is pleasant for her, but she is master...
HIGH DIVIDENDS are in sight for 1958, will probably match last year's record, predicts Standard & Poor's. For the year, it expects a "moderate" drop in after-tax profits from the $20.5 billion estimated for 1957. But S. & P. also figures that many U.S. companies will now be able to give a bigger share of their profits to stockholders because they will have less inventory and expansion costs...
Stassen, President Eisenhower's chief disarmament adviser and negotiator, has proposed "liberalizing" the policy. His chief recommendation was reported to be that the United States drop its insistence on halting atomic bomb production as part of a two-year ban on nuclear testing...