Word: pulp
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Some ants are gardeners. Latin America's famed leaf-cutting parasol ants, long thought to gather leaves solely for wallpaper, actually chew them into a pulp to make an underground compost heap in which to grow mushroom spores. When a parasol princess flies forth to mate, she carries in her cheek her dowry: a speck of mushroom culture to start the garden that will feed her thousands of future children...
...strong, very brave, attractive to the girls . . . Nothing new here: boys and youths have been identifying themselves with the Hero for thousands of years . . . But we might see to it that the Hero is not so often kicking people in the stomach and then smashing their faces into red pulp . . . It will be as well if the citizens of tomorrow do not take it for granted that people they dislike should be beaten, pounded, minced. The red-pulp view of life should be discouraged...
...opening of one of the South's biggest newsprint mills. From fast-growing southern pine, Britain's Bowaters Southern Paper Corp.'s new, $60 million plant at Calhoun, Tenn. will turn out 130,000 tons of newsprint and 55,000 tons of kraft pulp a year. More than 100 Southern publishers have signed up to buy the mill's entire output for the next 15 years...
...despot, Ivan the Terrible. The Kremlin bravos. But Gorin is heartsick at betraying his own values, and makes indiscreet remarks about the regime. From Veria, Feodor receives new orders, and he carries them out by smashing Gorin's head against a radiator until it is a bloody pulp...
Magazine stand owners in the Square started taking a closer look at the comic books and pulp magazines they sell yesterday as Massachusetts Attorney General George Fingold announced that he will launch a drive later this week to remove all obscene literature from public sale...