Word: gnaw
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Died. James Zetek, 72, entomologist who spent 36 years studying the behavior of termites on Barro Colorado Island (a haven for biological study that he helped found in the Panama Canal Zone), discovered a species of termite that could gnaw through 5 in. of concrete; of pneumonia; in Panama...
...boomslangs, and many bushbucks of many types crowded together on bald hilltops. During the day the equatorial sun beat down mercilessly, and birds of prey swooped in for unprecedented feasts. There are few baby monkeys or baboons-most have been eaten, some by their own species. The desperate monkeys gnaw the bark of their tree roosts and even attack the poisonous black mamba snake, from which they ordinarily flee in terror...
Although Genet reputedly wanted to add a cynical touch to an already morbid and sexually suggestive play by having the maids acted by two men, Wellesley refrains. Patricia Adel and Lucienne Schupf were given the roles, and they gnaw through them histrionically but frequently well. Their occasional over-acting is probably very much what Genet would have wanted; it helps exaggerate the nebulous line between reality and artificiality. Now and then, perhaps due to Nadine's Duwez's direction, sharp emotion and vigorous gestures and poses come too obviously from nowhere...
...Mother Goose's story of bringing home the bacon, the cat, as soon as it got its saucer of milk, began to kill the rat, which began to gnaw the rope, which began to hang the butcher, who began to kill the ox, which began to drink the water, which began to quench the fire, which began to burn the stick, which began to beat the dog, which began to bite the little pig-which then in fright jumped over the stile so that the old woman brought it home from market that night after...
...face wears an agony that in only ten weeks has grown as familiar to millions as Ed Murrow's cigarette or Arthur Godfrey's tea bag. Clamped in a vise of earphones, the eyes roll heavenward and squeeze shut, the brow sweats and furrows, the teeth gnaw at the lower lip. But the weekly torment of concentration always ends in triumph for Charles Lincoln Van Doren, 30, who has already won $122,000-more than any other quiz contestant in history-and is still going strong on NBC's Twenty One (Mon. 9 p.m., E.S.T.). Van Doren...