Word: inchworms
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...surprisingly, difficult to get Daryl Hannah to take you to her bed. We're still broaching the subject when she violently shakes my crotch, inspects my carabiners and tells me to try to relax. Then, in the darkness, I grab a rope and inchworm 50 feet up the almond tree she's been sleeping in for more than two weeks. To see Angelina Jolie's bed, you must have to pole vault an elephant...
...feel like an inchworm. Is that a dog down there? Oh my God, it's a furry dog! They shouldn't allow this...
Ranging from the carefree chirit, a long-bodied squirrel that moves by hunching its body inchworm-style, to the flooer, whose large pinkish ears mimic a flower to attract edible bees, Dixon's future zoo may suggest an imagination gone wild. But he is talking about a period 50 million years from now. And nature, the great experimenter, has already created creatures just as outrageous. -By Peter Stoler
...plant doctors often benefit mightily from basic ignorance. A New York housewife recently called Horticulturalist Peter Dunlop wailing that there was a pink snake in her plant. Dunlop, incredulous, asked how long it was, three feet, two, one? It turned out to be an inchworm. Another New York housewife recently expended the last half-gallon of gas in the family car to rush her ailing plant to the nearest cactus clinic. "It's stopped growing," she cried, "and the leaves keep falling off. I've tried everything, from Mozart to peat moss. What am I doing wrong...
...inchworm approach to a settlement has been more cautious than his own progress through his country's Communist Party. Born in Nam Ha, North Viet Nam, the son of a middle-echelon official in the French colonial administration, Tho found foreign occupation so intolerable that at the age of 20 he became a founding member of the Indochinese Communist Party. By 1945 he had been appointed to the Central Committee, and in 1949 was sent to South Viet Nam as the second man in charge of reorganizing Communist political and military activities. His superior was Le Duan...