Word: feds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...usually sting insensitive boors who kick their hives or stand half a foot away from them wearing black and threatening to steal their honey. (Bees don't like red or black, which look the same to them. Some ancestor of theirs had a traumatic experience when an ancient beekeeper fed them rancid molasses...
They found that butterfly larvae, which were fed leaves from nutrient deficient plants, had a higher rate of mortality and a slower rate of growth. Since insects constitute an important link in the food chain, lower populations of insects may have a huge impact upon animals and humans, they said...
...Gilmartin, a witty entertainment editor at a Toronto daily newspaper is as bewildered at his murder, in the opening paragraph, as the reader. Gil discovers his wife in bed with her lover-the Sniffer, a drama critic at the same newspaper. In a "fury, fed...by sexual excitement," the Sniffer deals a fatal blow...
...like everyone else, force-fed heterosexuality; my family, my Catholic church, television, schoolteachers and coaches all told me what the correct definition of sex was, and I followed it zealously. I was a virgin when I got to college, figuring that I would meet the right man and get married, then worry about sex. (That was one of my constant harps--people here at Harvard were too concerned with sex, or too liberal in their assessment...
Five minutes later, Whyte fed Alissi for an almost identical play to put Harvard ahead 2-0. The line would click yet again in the third period as Whyte waltzed around a defender and beat the netminder with a backhand...