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...They gnaw roots and husks...
...Galtsoff has a practical objective: protecting U.S. oyster beds from snails, which eat about $6,000,000 worth of oysters each year. The drills gnaw a hole in the oyster shell with a filelike organ called a "radula"; then they insert the toothed front end of their stomach and nibble the oyster away. Conchs do their dirty work on the edge of oyster shells. When all the oysters have been eaten, they file holes in one another...
...taken to "hot cells" with yard-thick concrete walls. There, working with periscopes and tools which reached around corners, chemists would extract the isotopes it contained. All workers wore loose canvas covers over their shoes so that no "hot" particle could lodge in the leather and gnaw a dangerous lesion in their feet. The laboratory tables were topped with three-inch slabs of lead. Neatly stacked lead bricks gave additional protection to workers...
Spring came to interior Alaska with a crash, a splash and $108,000. As in 28 previous years, last week's icebreak on the Tanana (rhymes with Anna gnaw) River was big news. To the lucky sourdough or trapper who guessed the day, hour and nearest minute the ice went out would go a record $108,000. And like other big news, Alaskans knew they would hear it first from Fairbanks radio station KFAR, whose special events crew was camped at Nenana (rhymes with keen Anna), 150 miles south of the Arctic circle...
...unknowns is led by Saxophonist Joe Garland, composer of Leap Frog and In the Mood. They alternate with a white band from 6:30 p.m. to 4 a.m. Between shows, Louis bounces through the restaurant kitchens to a crowded basement dressing room to shed his sweat-drenched shirt and gnaw barbecued ribs served on paper plates. On hand are a trunk of linen handkerchiefs, a dozen pairs of shoes ("They got to cool off"), and a typewriter. He says his hobby is "jus' typin'"-a typewriter has so many more keys to play with than a trumpet...