Word: gnaw
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Unfortunately, another faction is trying to gnaw away impartially at all of them, without regard to race, creed, color or state of mental health. It is a herd of vampire bats, who are understandably annoyed at the way their neighborhood is being run down. They are rather more clever than you would give them credit for - short-circuiting the lights at will, squirming through air-conditioning ducts to bite the folks good night. After a while, indeed, one begins to suspect that they had a chaw or two on the wiring of the computer that picked this lot of survival...
Your lungs gnaw...
Dake will be in the starting lineup along with Bullet Mike O'Rourke, Hurry Hurt. J. Anthony Hill III. Doug "Gnaw and Gnash" Schoen, player-coach R. Decherd. Tinker Lindsay and Susan Kinsley times 1.5 to achieve a nearperfect 2.5589 to 1 ratio...
...Rats and their parasites carry bubonic plague, murine typhus, trichinosis, leptospirosis and other diseases. Rats bite man in anger or nibble infants in hunger. Rats spoil an estimated 33 million tons of cereals each year, either by eating them outright or contaminating them with droppings. They steal eggs (whole), gnaw lazy elephants' feet and can kill young lambs...
...novelist. In tone, texture and pace, Everybody Knows and Nobody Cares is that rarity, a book with no false moves. Smith's hero is Ogden Jones, a Ph.D. candidate in English with a loved and loving wife and three nice children. Discontent with an academic future does not gnaw at him; it nibbles in a stimulating way. So with sleeping bag, fly rod and the warm wishes of wife and kids, he temporarily lights out to what is now the territory behind -the America of high places, crystal air and honeyed waters. It is nature's nation, which...