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...clinic. Dr. Eames faced a hard decision. One school of surgeons holds that it is too dangerous to remove a big tumor intact because this may throw the patient into shock; another holds that it is more dangerous to drain the tumor first and then remove the husk, because fluid containing malignant cells may spill into the abdominal cavity. Surgeon Eames decided to run the risk of shock, try to get the tumor out unbroken and undrained...
...Some ants are harvesters: they husk, store and dry seeds of grain, cutting roads six inches wide through vegetation to reach their crops. Most harvest ants march out together to gather the seeds, then straggle back with their burdens. Some ants which return without grain apparently feel embarrassed, pick up a useless pebble or a fallen petal and carry it along for show until they get home...
...became too public, Louis chopped it into smaller and smaller hideouts. In these "rats' nests" (as one courtier contemptuously described them), the King's absolute power lay hidden like the germ in a seed of wheat. The bulk of the palace was no more than a magnificent husk...
Corn on the Bang-Board. Down they went like angry threshing machines through the rows of hybrid corn, grabbing an ear of corn in the left hand, ripping open the husk with the hook, seizing the ear with the right hand, tearing the husk open with the left, snapping the stripped ear off with the right and flipping it against the bang-board of the wagon, all in a single uninterrupted operation. The pair tossed corn with machine-gun precision, hitting the bang-board with a new ear every second or oftener. "Oiyoiyoi, oiyoiyoi!" shrilled one of the astounded French...
...Husk and Fraser are not dazzled by the millions of dollars of property they protect. They always remember that "the kids come first." Indeed, it is often the kids who turn in timely alarms. The University switchboard hooks up directly with the Cambridge fire station across the street. University engineers, janitors, maids, and proctors turn in their share of the 10 to 12 alarms that the Cambridge firemen receive from the University in an average year...