Word: moths
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gloria Sr. was 19 when she gave birth in 1924; less than two years later, Little Gloria's father, Reggie Vanderbilt, died of inadequacy and excess, burned out at 44. Mama, a society beauty with the social conscience of a moth, fluttered from Europe to the U.S. and back again. Little Gloria became a piece of human luggage, shuttled from country places to castles, possessed by magical thoughts: "If I stayed still enough, the motor would start. If I held my breath, the front door would not open . . . I made a bargain with myself not to cry, and then...
Paul M. Connor of the company's Health, Safety and Toxicology Department said that napthalene, the main ingredient in moth balls, did not cause cancer and that the dump contained a small enough quantity of the chemical so that the only adverse effect might be the odor...
...South, you don't walk into a bar alone-you just wouldn't be a lady in my mother's opinion." Margaret's bar is not a pickup place. It's more a sort of warm hearth. "I was drawn in here as a moth to a flame as soon as I heard Malagueña," says David, a hotel guest from Maryland. He sings Hava Nagila and applauds as Margaret moves into a Chopin polonaise...
...elections in 1977 or 1981. Harvard would have ignored the 1977 NLRB ruling and refused to negotiate with the union, forcing the matter into the courts--where it probably would have remained for years to get its side a second hearing. Harvard's financial and legal resources won this moth's decision and would probably have prevailed over a fledgling union in a lengthy court battle...
...moth is still under tape along with records of the experiment at the U.S. Naval Surface Weapons Center...