Word: insectes
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...struck up Haydn's cheerful "Clock" Symphony. Onstage, the audience saw a twelve-foot grandfather clock with human hands and a swinging pendulum of dancers' legs. But to go with Haydn's rippling music, Choreographer Leonide Massine had scraped up a trivial love story between an insect princess and a human clockmaker, and set it dancing with steps that were largely borrowings from a dozen Massine ballets. About all that made the evening enjoyable, particularly to the men in the stalls, were the pretty legs and graceful dancing of the princess, redhaired Ballerina Moira Shearer...
...relentless, never-ceasing war of man v. insect, each side has just won a minor skirmish...
...Department's scientists consider their results inconclusive, but definitely promising. They have a lot more chemicals to try, and they have already established that slight changes in a compound's molecular structure sometimes make it more poisonous to insects or less poisonous to higher animals. Eventually they hope to find a Jekyll-Hyde chemical that will flow harmlessly in the veins of humans, but knock off any insect that sucks the human's blood...
...insist on being hanged by the neck in three weeks' time,' and the strength of his desire to die was forcing his weak voice through his shuddering lips and ignoring his pain, which was great, for he was blasted by what he did. He was like an insect that falls on a hot stove and is withered, and what he did felt like an act of cruelty to the whole court. It rejected the life that...
Outside, the lonely pastoral scene grew dark. People began to leave. In one corner of the visitors' gallery, a pair of earphones lying on a chair continued to buzz. The translator's voice, like some angry insect, was a reminder that to carry physical communication to the edge of the perfect did not advance understanding, much less agreement...