Word: segments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prey in a proper state of torpor, the caterpillar-hunting wasp sometimes shoots the caterpillar 13 times, once for each segment. That deadeyed Annie Oakley, the beetle hunter, can bowl over her hard-shelled victims with a saddle shot that pierces a tiny chink in the beetle's armor and penetrates precisely to its central nerve-control station. One rakish little black and red hunting wasp specializes in the praying mantis, ghoulish grizzly of the insect world. Ducking away from the praying mantis' gaping arms, she zooms back and forth like a pendulum behind the giant...
...should turn at least some of our concern toward the two things that present the gravest danger to the preservation of our civilization: the bewilderment of our youth in a world they never made . . . and the widespread, arrogant, contemptuous and too often sanctioned brutality on the part of a segment of our police officers...
...other hand, the plan of South Carolina to turn the school systems over to private hands would have meant an interminate revival of complete segregation and a lowering of already inferior educational standards. Nevertheless, the "wisdom" of the Court's decision only emphasizes the unpleasant truth that a sizeable segment of the population is not, at present, ready to obey the law. The Court has merely made clear that it prefers modified un-Constitutionality to possible violence...
...played its best ball of the season in the opening 250 minutes of the game. Leo Daley, Gibson Gerry, and Fred Sharf on defense and John Ogden in the goal held off Yale's attackers again and again. Crimson attackmen were even able to crack the Eli defense, strongest segment of the squad...
...canvas of Shady Hill residents yesterday revealed two groups among the opposition. One segment maintains that the plan, while good in theory, is unfeasible in practice, while another opposes the whole idea...