Word: feed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most U.S. termites eat deadwood. They have the almost unique power of digesting cellulose. Hence, unlike most animals, they have little natural competition to check their increase. Most insects depend upon a seasonal food supply, and their life cycles allow them only brief intervals to feed and breed. Termites almost never stop eating...
Chemical Warfare. Termite soldiers are so specialized for war that they cannot even feed themselves, must be crammed by workers. Their fantastic defense mechanism is designed solely for use against their chief enemy, ants. The soldiers' enlarged heads (see cut, p. 38) contain glands which produce a viscous chemical. Some times it is squirted forth in a gooey stream which entangles the attackers, and some times confuses and repels them by its odor...
...American and British correspondents seeking crumbs of information, and satisfying their thirst. Their uniforms comprise as strange a collection as the officers'. About the only women at Shepheard's are WAASies (Woman's Auxiliary Army Service). Trim uniformed and exceptionally attractive, they drink only lemonade and feed potato chips to the little birds which romp around the floor...
...taught 50,000 women about wartime food budgets and nutrition, trained 30,000 to man Red Cross canteens. (In nearly two-thirds of the country's 3,735 Red Cross chapters, the Canteen Corps is ready to feed the community in time of disaster...
...feed the Army in fiscal 1943 will cost $1,270,240,000-63.86? a head daily...