Word: insection
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...alerts issued in central Florida and on New York's Long Island, officials said that the virus causing the deadly brain disease was at large and that nature's most loathed insect was carrying it. Earlier in the month, similar alarms were sounded in several states, including Massachusetts, North Dakota and Georgia...
...Mimic, works as both pulp and poetry. It gets scare shivers tickling the lay audience while connoisseurs nod sagely at the canonical resonance; think of the creature as Dracula spreading its capelike wings and Sorvino as both a Frankenstein whose experiment went bad and a Fay Wray to the insect world's King Kong. The roach and its sibs are Susan's mutant creations; they have the gift of mimicking other species. If Susan's commando crew doesn't Off the bugs quick, New York could become a slightly less fabulous place to live...
...them with minicameras or other sensory devices so that they can crawl into pipes to track vermin or, in a more heroic endeavor, be sent into earthquake rubble to locate survivors. Sewage inspection should suit them just fine: cockroaches are scavengers that eat their own. A spokesman for Combat Insect Control Systems, which makes household insecticides, says there is no shortage of roaches for such duties (more than 3,500 species exist), "but it will probably be hard to get the cameras back. Cockroaches don't like to be around people in commotion. And they generally die on their backs...
Once upon a time, there was a wise and aged turtle who was renowned throughout the swamp for the brilliant and lively gatherings he regularly held at his house. He attracted only the most erudite of animals--sagacious frogs who were experts in insect biology, beautifully plumed birds who would manipulate song and poetry to the highest degree, blinking fish who were masters of modern languages, and many others. They convened daily, not only among themselves, but also with the younger and lesser-learned animals of the swamp, with whom they shared ideas through lively conversation and written scholarship...
Harvard teammates Matthew A. Carter '99, Karen M. Paik '99 and Felicia Wu '98 said the YMCA orthographic hymenopterous insect (spelling bee) made for an exciting evening...