Word: froths
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...form of "living fossils," that the bombardier did indeed evolve: proto-bombardiers have been found in Africa, California and Australia. One of the variations that he has studied can spray a burst of benzoquinones, but it lacks the bombardier's aiming mechanism and ends up with a repellent froth on its back. The bombardier's nozzle arrangement is obviously a refinement of this type of defense. Says Eisner: "This is evolution right before your eyes...
...JUST DON'T understand it. I've been at Harvard for two years. I'm a typical Massachusetts-bred liberal, but I just can't get myself to froth at the mouth over divestiture...
...chemical-perhaps phosgene, which is used to make methyl isocyanate. Six days after the accident, patients were still arriving at Hamidia Hospital at the rate of one a minute, many of them doubled over with racking coughs, gasping for breath or convulsed with violent spasms that brought a red froth to the lips...
...factory, dead bodies were still on the ground, being picked up and loaded aboard a waiting truck. Everywhere one turned, people were retching, bent over horribly, racked by violent coughing that brought a red froth to their lips...
...vote itself is a very ephemeral thing. It is froth on the surface of a churning sea. To understand what is generating that froth you have to understand what people aspire to and what they value highly. I just completed a study on this subject and found that younger voters are very individualistic in their economic views but quite liberal in terms of their positions on social issues, such as the ERA and abortion. They tend to be more liberal than the Republican platform. So there is a certain tension there. If growth continues and the economy is no longer...