Word: nectar
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...often the flower plays too rough, and the snap of the pistil knocks the bee for a loop. Tough wild bees will take this punishment. Gently bred tame bees will not. They sneak up on the flower and steal its nectar stealthily without springing the pistil. The flower thus remains unfertilized and bears no alfalfa seed...
...Department thinks, may revolutionize the bee business. At present the genetic lines of even the purest strains are apt to be crisscrossed with untraceable parent drones. When questionable strains are removed (by the $95 method), many new types can be bred. There will be long-tongued bees to suck nectar out of red clover flowers (only bumblebees can get it now). Cold-resisting bees will pioneer northerly regions. Efficient pollinators will be developed to fill the needs of orchardists. Exotic strains, such as giant bees and wasp-fighting bees from Asia, may contribute new, valuable qualities...
...things from those English. Except for the lack of a leading actress who is not a nonentity, "The Ghest and Mrs. Muir" might very well be one of the better imports seen around the Exeter Theater, and it is just possible that the American public will take this rare nectar willingly. Rex Harrison could easily be addressing the producer of the picture when he tells Gene Tierney through his beaver, "My dear, I like you. You have spunk...
...cash register and made Vag's nostrils dilate voluptuously with the smell of dill. "Ah, Bock," he smiled ecstatically, unaffected by his friend's matter-of-fact terseness. "Harbinger of Spring. Once a year the brewers clean out the dregs from their barrels and market this heady, brown nectar. Why, it's better than Jake Wirth's dark, and you can save the subway trip." He held his glass up and examined its rich molasses-like color in the light. The strains of Stravinsky's Sacre du Printemps revamped by Freddie Martin began to permeate the vernal atmosphere...
...chapter, consisting of imaginary interviews with Plato, Marcus Aurelius, St. Paul, Spinoza and Schopenhauer, shows Professor Edman as an eclectic honeybee of philosophy, his nectar sacs full, his buzzing melodious and sunny. His conclusion: ". . . Though the order is not found, the inquiry proves, itself, a goal...