Word: exterminatee
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Now the U.S.D.A. entomologists are figuring out how many sterilized males wil be needed to hunt down all the females in the state of Florida. They are even hoping to use the same method to exterminate other insect pests whose females are equally monogamous.
Behind man's efforts to exterminate the world's insect population lies the uneasy suspicion that the insect world may some day take over his own. As Illinois Entomologist George Decker put it last week: man "is a late arrival who has attempted to displace a well-adjusted...
"What does concern me, in common with thinking partisans of both parties, is not just winning this election, but how it is won ... I hope and pray that we Democrats . . . can campaign not as a crusade to exterminate the opposing party, as our opponents seem to prefer, but as a...
* The Waldenses, who like to think of themselves as the first Protestants, were followers of a French merchant named Peter Waldo. They publicly objected to papal pomp and corruption, and in the 13th Century were driven into the hills, where they managed to survive despite sporadic attempts to exterminate them...
At the Nürnberg trials in January 1946, SS General and longtime Nazi Party Member Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski gave damaging testimony about his former bosses' plans to exterminate 30 million Slavs. Listening in the defendants' box, Hermann Göring was incensed. "Dirty dog! Damned...