Word: eaten
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Fisheries are a masterpiece of efficiency: the Chinese encircle them with mulberry bushes. The leaves are eaten by silkworms, whose droppings fall into the ponds and feed the fish. Various species of fish ply the different depths of the ponds, which also support ducks and provide water for pigs...
...spins dizzyingly and car lights advance so rapidly they been one bright squiggles against a backdrop of blackness. The moon moves across the sky like a second hand on a clock. A lake fills with water and then suddenly drys up. Food decays faster than it could ever be eaten...
...seen all the movies. You've eaten enough ice cream to make you sick. You want to do something, but you've done...
...example, including loggerheads, green turtles and others, cross hundreds of miles of ocean to lay eggs on the same sections of the same beaches. If the beach has eroded badly, a turtle is forced by instinct to use it anyway, dooming the eggs to be washed away or eaten by seabirds and raccoons. Least terns, Gulf Coast shellfish and beach-spawning fish, like the California grunion, are also in danger...
...supermarket bookracks. At first playing Scheherazade to her, he ends up playing Scheherazade to himself: he will not try to get away until he knows how it all comes out. But then his imagination fires up. The old proverb may have said that revenge is a dish best eaten cold, he reflects, "but Ronson Fast-Lite had yet to be invented." King's fans will relish the book's gore (oozing, splattering, spraying), and his editor will no doubt be ecstatic about its sales (climbing, surging, exploding...