Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Catch Them Vulnerable. Chief reason for this, the authors say, is that not all insects are vulnerable at the same time. Some are tough adults; some are leading sheltered lives under bark or soil. Moderate doses of DDT have little effect on these. If a forest is sprayed when the pest insect is vulnerable, most of the non-pests come through unscathed...
...Mothers with crying children should be treated with the utmost courtesy and care . . . Say: 'I am very sorry, Ma'am, but I must ask you to take the little one to the rest room...
...disturb [petting couples] unless the conduct is [attracting] attention . . . If their conduct is noticeable . . . say: 'It will be necessary for me to call one of the management if your attitude does not change at once...
...Says O'Faolain, in further judgment: "The greatest curse of Ireland has not been English invasions or English misgovernment; it has been the exaggeration of Irish virtues-our stubbornness, conservatism, enormous arrogance, our power of resistance, our capacity for taking punishment, our laughter, endurance, fatalism, devotion to the past all taken to the point where every human quality can become a vice instead of a virtue. So that, for example, humor becomes cynicism, endurance becomes exhaustion, arrogance blindness and the Patriot a Blimp. In other words Ireland is learning, as Americans say, the hard way . . . Ireland has clung...
...Those up-country sheriffs are no good," Charley Bolton would say. "Too bad they couldn't send a few of you up into the hills to get hold of that Black Bart...