Word: scorpion
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...over the U.S., pet lovers are buying what the trade calls "exotics." Rover, Tabby and Budgie are as popular as ever, but they are being crowded by Huggy the boa constrictor, Beaky the vulture, Stinger the scorpion and many other creepy, crawly, slinky, slithery creatures that once belonged in zoos...
...helped James Bond narrowly escape death by drowning, poison, bullets, knives, giant squids, falling cliffs, steam, rocket exhaust, auto wreck, buzz saw, scorpion bite, lethal plants, suffocation and surfeit of women. But there was no one to reciprocate for Ian Fleming, last week, in his apartment at Sandwich, where he was holidaying after reading proof on his latest, and last, James Bond adventure, The Man With the Golden Gun. He suffered a second heart attack, and four hours after he reached a hospital at Canterbury, Ian Fleming died. He had already spoken his own epitaph. "Oh," he said...
Most victims step on the tentacles of a dying man-of-war washed up on the beach, and they get what feels like a scorpion sting. Several tentacles drawn across the legs feel like a lashing with red-hot wires, and may throw a healthy adult into shock by suddenly dropping his blood pressure. The extreme pain may last an hour, and dull pain for a couple of hours more. The welts persist for up to three months...
...supervised the regime's tortures and executions-and was himself tossed into jail for 18 months when he seemed to be getting too ambitious. After his release last year, Barbot launched a campaign of terror against his old mentor. To Haitians, it was like a choice between a scorpion and a tarantula: "What would you do with a killer who delivered the country of a homicidal maniac...
...Face of the Enemy. All this vast deployment of men, minds and munitions is aimed at destroying the Communist Viet Cong, some 25,000 guerrillas who are as difficult to find, and as dangerous, as a scorpion in a haystack. No one knows what the U.S. is up against in the jungles of South Viet Nam without knowing the nature of the enemy...