Word: moth
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...dissolve into a skull. An unemotional voice intones: "When it was all over, there was nothing else left but a small flame: the mountains, the fields, the city and the earth had all disappeared ... Then I saw it. still flying around the flame, and now it looked like a moth and it, too, was destroyed, and the flame died." Even in black and white, the Vision was so chilling that the studio audience sat in stunned silence when it was over. Wires and phone calls poured in, about evenly divided between praise and condemnation. Sullivan will give a repeat showing...
...seater, open-cockpit.job . . . Our ardor might have been damped if our first experience of flying was sitting in a pressurized tube looking out of a small side window with 40 other people . . . There is far more exhilaration, fun and impression of speed in the open cockpit of a Tiger Moth doing 80 m.p.h. in and out of the valleys and hills made by cumulus clouds on a summer...
...moth-eaten symbol of East-West friendship broke briefly into the news last week as President Eisenhower recalled the bear-skin rug given him in the last days of the war by Soviet Marshal Georgi Zhukov. The knowledge that Zhukov, the newly named Defense Minister, is a thoroughly professional soldier with the professional's innate caution, was probably the only encouraging aspect of the newest revolution of Moscow's inner circle...
...Sister! do not rouse my wrath, I'd make you into mutton broth As easily as kill a moth...
...tucking, no gusset, gore, or gather could make last year's dress into this fall's Dior mode. In upstairs closets from Spokane to Athens, Copenhagen to Rome, millions of dresses would suddenly become "that old thing," their value destroyed with a swiftness and efficiency that no moth could hope to match...