Word: hiveness
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Soon San Jose was transformed from a somnolent agricultural county seat into a hive of technical industry. Lockheed, IBM, Hewlett-Packard and United Aircraft all built big plants amid the plum trees. By last year Santa Clara County had surpassed San Francisco County in population, retail sales and annual payroll...
This nose is a shrine. It starts at the summit of her hive-piled hair and ends where a trombone hits the D below middle C. The face it divides is long and sad, and the look in repose is the essence of hound. She is about as pretty, in short, as Fanny Brice; but as she sings number after number and grows in the mind, she touches the heart with her awkwardness, her lunging humor, and a bravery that is all the more winning because she seems so vulnerable. People start to nudge one another and say, "This girl...
When he thought he knew enough about the bees' talking dance. Dr. Esch rigged up an artificial bee and stuck it in a hive to repeat a dance that had been performed by a live scout bee. At the proper moment, a tiny loudspeaker emitted the proper recorded sounds. A ring of workers followed the performance with apparent interest, and Dr. Esch hoped that they would fly out of the hive to find the nectar described by the simulated scout...
Zoologist Harald Esch of the University of Munich stumbled on the information while performing an elaborate experiment on bee dances. Prompted by curiosity, he poked a small microphone into the hive while a scout was making her dancing report. "I got the surprise of my life," he says. "Blasting out of the earphones came a loud 'thththrrrr.' followed by a short 'beep.' Then some of the worker bees flew out of the hive. I knew I had hit on something entirely...
...lazy mountain village of Chiangmai, Thailand, not far from the embattled borders of Laos, pedicabs wheel slowly through the shaded streets to the hive of fruit stalls, artisans and peddlers in the marketplace; and in the jungles, past the brooding Buddhist temples, the eucalypti and wild orchids frame the mute beauty of the valley...