Word: hatch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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First and foremost is the return to action of most of the 32 players who last week graced the injured list. The number includes first string right halfback Hobie Armstrong, second string right halfback Hank Hatch, and veteran left guard Ernie Zissis. Only sophomore end Paul Barringer of the top 22 remains out of commission, although guard Bill Southmayd is still playing at only half speed because of a broken left hand...
...budding ichthyologist pours tepid tap water. Into the tap water he drops tiny fish eggs. Twenty minutes to two days later, pop! pop! pop! -instant fish, tastefully colored red, yellow, blue. They are an African variety, the eggs of which survive even when dried out during droughts, and hatch when the rains come. What do they eat? Instant shrimp, of course. Into a separate small tank in the aquarium goes salt water, and into the salt water goes a powder that turns into hundreds of tiny shrimps (a magnifying glass is included). By the time these are eaten...
...trouble comes when the female lays her eggs. She picks a tender twig, saws a slit in it with a rasplike ovipositor on her stern, lays her eggs in the slit, and soon dies. The weakened limbs may break or die too. After several weeks the eggs hatch, the larvae crawl out and drop down on the ground where they bury themselves for 16 years, 10½ months. Then, on the first hot day of May, they climb out of the ground, shed their shells, sprout wings and start a plague...
...trying to wipe out tiny gnats that leave the victims of their bites infested with worms that attack the eyes, causing "river blindness." In some villages, all adults are blind. The doctors are using drugs to kill the worms, and insecticides in the rivers (where the flies' eggs hatch) to break the blindness cycle...
...hurdles, Hatch and Jones likewise finished second and third to pick up important points. Luck was first in 23.5, but Ell Bill Flippin, the obvious choice for second, ran out of the money...