Word: pests
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...enslaves smaller flies and mosquitoes by gluing its eggs to their bodies. When the slave bites a victim, the eggs hatch into larvae which bore into him. And, says Dr. Kaye, two of them might have been enough to start a general infestation of the U.S. with another painful pest...
...pride, honor and love-constantly appear in his work. This has baffled some readers dazzled by the deceptively brilliant surface texture and the sort of knowing social-insider's stylishness that will set a time period with: "Now that was the year when the squirrels were such a pest and everybody worried about cancer and homosexuality." One sentence like that and The New Yorker reader knows where he is or thinks he knows where he is-in Chicsville, U.S.A., a tightly zoned community...
...certainly not having one of their good weeks -and approached Oswald almost as though he were going to shake hands. He was Jack Ruby (born Rubinstein) a stocky, balding 50-year-old bachelor who owns a couple of Dallas strip joints, was known to cops as a publicity-seeking pest...
Charles Julius Guiteau, 39, was known to President James A. Garfield only as a bragging pest who incessantly ailed at the White House to ask for "the Paris consulship." Guiteau, a lawyer and evangelist, described himself as an employee of "Jesus Christ & Co.," but wandering around Washington, sockless and absurd, he announced that his real mission was the salvation of unity in the Republican Party. At last he decided that God's will had ordained Garfield's death. He bought a .44-cal. revolver, tested it by firing at saplings along the Potomac, and went by the Washington...
Founded in 1959 by Ringier Verlag, a Zofingen publishing house, Blick wasted no time violating the national sense of propriety. "A foreign pest on national soil," cried one member of Parliament, after nosy Blick reporters demanded more than government handouts; orders went out that shut every official door on Blick's newsmen. Three Lucerne businessmen circulated a flyer labeled Pfiff-which means the skirl of a whistle, as blown by a referee calling a foul-that wishfully pronounced Blick dead. Instead, Blick's Lucerne circulation jumped from...