Word: snaked
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...Dems gained at least a dozen G.O.P.-gerrymandered districts. (The word refers to a salamander-shaped Massachusetts district carved by Governor Elbridge Gerry in 1810.) But funny shaping did cut G.O.P. losses. For example, New York Congressman John Walsh won with 51% of the vote in his snake-like district. The past two times...
Jackie Bibby, a.k.a. "The Texas Snake Man," had four records, including sitting in a bathtub with 81 rattlesnakes and sharing a sleeping bag with 109. He earned a fifth last week, holding ten 212-ft. Western diamondback rattlesnakes in his mouth...
...hallways that snake between the offices of the Du Bois Institute faculty lies the permanent art collection—a motley assortment of paintings, posters, and sculptures—that memorialize many moments in the history of Africans, African-Americans, and the institute itself...
...storyline that follows Kirihito's former colleague, Dr. Urabe, may be the most disturbing to Western audiences. While searching for the true cause of monmow disease Urabe struggles with his own predilections as a sexual predator. Ode to Kirihito has plenty of stunningly sadistic moments - including a giant snake consuming a baby for the pleasure of an audience - but the gratuitous scenes of rape, often followed by the victim's falling in love with the victimizer, will change most reader's perception of Tezuka's work. Readers should realize, however, that the depiction of rape holds a different place...
...skeptics would argue that all Mondraty and Sachdev have observed is an extreme example of what happens in the brain when we focus on something that makes us feel anxious and inadequate, or when dread causes us to mistake the harmless for the fearsome - the garden hose for a snake...