Word: lesser
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...central Maine, people were fighting a different kind of insect infestation. For years poultry farmers in the area encouraged the proliferation of lesser mealworm beetles in manure pits, mistakenly believing they would hasten the chemical breakdown of the wastes into fertilizer. The tiny black creatures have thrived on partly digested grain in the manure, and this year their numbers have suddenly got out of control. At night, they seek shelter in farmhouses, boring holes in the walls and hiding in bedding and curtains. The only way to combat them is with brooms and vacuum cleaners. Says Mrs. James...
Street Legal is Dylan's most ambitious album since Blood on the Tracks. Carefully matching vocals with instrumentals and relying heavily on three female background vocalists, Dylan has his new style coming through on every cut. While the songs are linked together by a common style and, to a lesser degree, common lyrical themes, they are far from consistent and stand together almost as an ad hoc collection of musical experiments, with Dylan the Mixer finding still more ways to work background vocals into his songs...
...annual cheese-squeezing championships, one of the world's lesser-known sporting events, will take place this weekend in fabulous Lynnfield. Take Route 1 north to the Dairy Queen, turn right, and keep going. The exciting Brie quarter-finals begin Sunday...
...long semantic rabbit hole down which any curious Alice can easily lose her orientation. Definitions of language differ among physiologists, behaviorists, linguists and philosophers, with the gloomy Ludwig Wittgenstein once suggesting that even if a lion could talk, we would not understand it. Sapient quadrupeds and "talking" lesser primates could also challenge a sacred precept of Western culture: that man is superior to nature...
Arrests of other neo-Nazis on such lesser charges as carrying weapons illegally or disturbing the peace have increased from 80 to 300 in a year. Criminal incidents attributed to the far right rose from 330 in 1976 to 613 last year. More disturbing, there has been an upsurge in anti-Semitic activities, including the desecration of Jewish synagogues and cemeteries with swastikas or Nazi slogans...