Word: giant
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...rest of organisms. We're beginning to have some affection for and concern for the fate of frog species and salamander species. In Europe already, the public is increasingly concerned about butterflies, beetles and the like. I don't mean to say that one will ever consider the giant American Burying beetle, which lives on the decaying corpses of rats and mice, as a cuddly organism like the panda. Nonetheless, there is a magnificence to these creatures that needs to be cultivated by one or the other appeal to deep human emotions...
...academicenvironment well-suited to his interests. Inaddition to studying under an influentialprofessor who served as his early mentor, Wilson"had the good fortune of becoming buddies with asmall gang of other budding entomologists." Hereceived a good education at Alabama--"evenwithout Nobel Laureates teaching me. We didn'thave a giant accelerator or a great laboratory ofbiochemistry, but we had the Alabama naturalenvironment and that was as good as anylaboratory...
...bullseye of the core of the problem." ."I've lived the American Dream."--Sound familiar? ."I have lived with the burden of the Middle East..." .On the cost of the S & L crisis: "Just tell me now. I'm grown up, I can deal with it." ."A giant sucking sound of jobs..." ."If you confiscate the Forbes 400 wealth, take it all, you cannot balance the budget this year." ."I'm putting my wallet on the table for you and your children." ."I can say that I run a grocery store, that doesn't mean I could run Wal-Mart...
...this spring, I noticed a disturbing trend. My section for Bernard Bailyn's Historical Studies B-31 was huge. Approximately 20 of us sat in desks arranged in a giant horseshoe around our hapless TF. Had we been more alert, we could easily have organized a thrilling game of "Red Rover" or "Keep Away" during our mind-numbingly dull discussions of the Stamp...
...reporting a fire in a right-wing engine. As he circled back for the airport, dumping fuel in preparation for an emergency landing, he radioed that a second engine had failed. "Going down! Going down!" Fuchs' words, monitored by the control tower, had a chilling simplicity. Seconds later, the giant plane slammed into the apartment building, sundering it in two. Three minutes' grace, and the jet would have reached the closest runway 10 miles away...