Word: genus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hatchet and scurried out again. Then, while popeyed passers-by looked on, the bridegroom began hacking at a telephone pole on one of Charleston's main business streets. A few minutes later, he triumphantly rejoined his waiting and bewildered bride, with a fine specimen of a soldier termite (genus Kalotermes) in his hand...
...Police. For 250 years quinine was the only police agent used to control malaria. Swamp drainage and screening of buildings have been added to the force since 1898, when it was shown that malaria parasites (tiny protozoa of the genus Plasmodium) spend part of their life cycle in female Anopheles mosquitoes. The mosquito picks up the parasites from infected humans, nurtures them and injects them into fresh victims. The parasites run through the bloodstream of their victim, causing periodic fevers at the peak of their reproductive cycle; many lodge in the spleen, causing local pain...
...genus Harpagomyia preys on ants. The mosquito alights in front of an ant and holds it tightly with its forelegs. After a while the ant opens its mouth. The mosquito inserts its proboscis and sucks up food which the ant squeezes from its stomach. Both parties seem to enjoy this interchange. The mosquito vibrates its wings with pleasure; the shmoo-like ant caresses the mosquito's proboscis with its palpi...
Today the Charles River cannot be advertised as a competitor for Poland Springs. Newton's municipal sewage has all been diverted, malarial mosquitoes of the genus anapholes have all been removed, and the Brighton abbatoir makes mucilage out of the hoofs. The only attraction left to the natator and nature student are colonies of algae and orange peels...
...Time, etc," embraces exactly the elements you invariably have to endure in these epic events from the California flicker factory the Broadway musical show produced on a shoestring, the leading lady stepping into and out of her big role, the in genus who was weaned on opera, the "name" orchestra leader who can't act. S. E. Sakall, the "show must go on" routine, and the rest of the standard attractions done in the standard manner. You must have seen it all a couple of times, at least...