Word: ferns
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...auditioning house for promising comics, only to be adjudged on the descent. In Los Angeles, ever the scholar at the University of Southern California, he went on The Gong Show, a sort of television Ship of Fools, and won second place with a trained plant act. (He put a fern through a hoop, shot a plant out of a cannon, sawed a plant in half. An old lady from Santa Monica beat him with a Sophie Tucker impersonation...
...thought we'd be lucky if we kept them down to five-goals," Northeastern Coach Fern Flaman said...
...State Department reacted angrily. The U.S., it said, "can find no reasonable basis" for the court's decision. "We do not consider the matter closed." Meanwhile, the violence goes on: the mutilated body of the Rev. Ernesto Fernández Espino, 37, a leader of El Salvador's Lutheran Church, was found last week in a village near San Miguel...
...1960s, she was a leader in the drive to incorporate modern techniques in Harvard's biological studies, playing a key role in the University's acquisition of its first scanning electron microscope. The microscope has revolutionized several areas of study, including fern research...
Eventually, a German bookseller unveiled the "seed mystery" when he discovered that the fern reproduces by means of a tiny, asexually generated spore which falls to the ground and then sprouts...