Word: silverfish
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...number of eyewitnesses described the gunman as about six feet tall and wearing a lacquered wig "of a silverfish color" over short hair, lensless glasses, and a black trench coat...
...jailed for two years. Beirut's safety has also impressed some of the usually suspicious sheiks of the Persian Gulf. Sheik Shakhbut of Abu Dhabi, who earns $1,000,000 a week from his oil, insisted on burying his bank notes in his mud-brick palace-until silverfish began drilling through the bundles...
...beach head. Delighted students discovered that the basement was alive with venomous spiders, many of them pregnant females sitting by their stringy webs of coarse white silk. By reasonable estimate, at least 1,000 laetas were hiding under boards or in dark corners. They had been feeding on silverfish and other furtive basement insects. Lack of local enemies had probably encouraged the spider population explosion...
...that invaded the southern U.S. in the 1920s. No research was done in advance, and the ants are thriving still. Before attacking the spiders in his museum's basement. Dr. Levi intends to find out whether they have spread to other Harvard buildings in a search for their silverfish food. He wants to learn where the females lay their eggs, why only the males venture out of the basement. Only when he is thoroughly familiar with the habits of Loxosceles laeta will he reluctantly give the order to destroy its Cambridge colony...
With students acting more like a generation of book-eating silverfish than a group of well mannered readers, Widener Library and its annexes face an increasing shortage of essential texts. Irresponsible squiggles carved into the margins of valuable books and the destruction of entire chapters by argumentative students retire vital books from service with alarming frequency. This destruction of rare and out-of-print works seriously hampers the efficiency of the University library system. Coupled with increasing book thefts by a few slippery dips, the mutilation of library property becomes a problem that must be solved if students expect...