Word: gnat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...column of singing light, and a cricketlike being with a green warty head. He heard awesome and uninterpretable rumbles from the dead lava hills. After smoking humito and talking to a bilingual coyote, he saw the "guardian of the other world" rise before him as a hundred-foot-high gnat with spiky tufted hair and drooling jaws. After rubbing his body with an unguent made from datura, the terrified anthropologist experienced all the sensations of flying...
...hurled up past us in the night, reaching heights twice that of the Empire State Building. The night turned from black to red, and the air smelled like sulfuric fumes from 100 billion burned-out kitchen matches. It was as if the twin-engine Piper aircraft were a mere gnat hovering at the open door of a blast furnace...
...game of safeties. The Crimson picked up 16 points on them, and the Nieman fellows scored their only two points when the Human Gnat dumped Crimson quarterback Mike O'Rourke in his own end zone...
...aggressive play of "Gentleman Doug" Schoen was the only highlight of the offensive unit. Schoen squashed the Human Gnat, a child-like pass rusher who harried the Crimson QB all afternoon. The boy's father invited Schoen out to the parking lot after the game, but Schoen sent his regrets...
Sledgehammer v. Gnat. The Department of Agriculture is trying to banish the fire ant. But its latest plan for doing it is under sharp attack by three conservationist groups-the Environmental Defense Fund, the National Wildlife Federation and CLEAN (Committee for Leaving the Environment of America Natural). The Department's program calls for discharging 450 million pounds of a bait containing 1,350,000 lbs. of Mirex-a powerful chlorinated hydrocarbon-on 150 million acres of land in nine Southern states. In a suit filed in U.S. district court in Washington, D.C., "on behalf of all citizens...