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...chemical is sometimes, however, destructive of some of man's best friends. At the University of California, when walnut trees were sprayed to kill the destructive codling moth, the beneficent ladybird beetles were killed too. Result: a horde of walnut aphids, normally eaten by the ladybirds, fell on the defenseless trees and stripped their foliage...
...experience in an aircraft factory: "After a few days I occasionally felt a oneness with my machine. . . . And the picking up and quarter-turning of each part fell into a rhythmic pattern. . . . "The bee's kiss now,' as I bore down firmly on the reamer. 'The moth's kiss now,' as I lightly burred the edges...
...proudest two theaters in Russia, Moscow's Bolshoi and Leningrad's Kirov, were slightly damaged in the war and the State took this excuse to give them such renovation that, by comparison, New York's Metropolitan Opera House looks like an elderly duchess decked out in moth-eaten flannel underwear...
Hunger and Heartbreak. He lived for a year and a half in the slums of London. He lived on tea and buns, learned what it felt like to faint from hunger. He rented an abandoned studio, slept on the models' stand, with a moth-eaten bearskin for a blanket. When his salary at a press-clipping agency was upped to 30 shillings a week, he was in clover. In Sussex, in a farmhouse that had once been a priory, in a big sunny room with casement windows, he wrote his first, brilliantly titled, critical book, The Wine...
...hypothetical crown; of leukemia; in the Bethesda (Md.) Naval Hospital. Cauliflower-eared Sonnenberg played football for Dartmouth and the Providence Steamrollers, taught in Detroit high schools, introduced football's flying tackle to wrestling, topped most of his ringmates in grunting & groaning. He once lost a "championship" when a moth flew into his mouth and choked...