Word: sprayed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Wearing an exterminator's white coveralls and grasping a bug-spray canister and two yellow flyswatters, Conte announced on the steps of the Capitol that Shulton, Inc., a "roach-busting" company from his congressional district, was donating 35,000 roach traps to combat the problem. Conte, a 26-year veteran of the Hill, is something of an expert on all sorts of pests. Says he: "I've seen the beady-eyed Midwestern cockroach, the pesky little New England cockroach as well as the rodeo cockroach, usually found only west of the Mississippi...
...Vigilante, was already a national sensation. The police reported hundreds of calls praising the gunman--some lamenting his lack of accuracy. The New York tabloids engaged in a frenzied competition of hysterical headlines. Man-in-the-street interviews revealed blacks and whites enthusiastically supporting the gunman. The exuberant graffiti spray-painted on New York's East River Drive proclaimed POWER TO THE VIGILANTE. NEW YORK LOVES...
...native New England boulders, arranged in a 60-foot circle, cage 70 spray jets which ordinarily "produce a fine spray which will refract natural light, producing a rainbow effect," according to a press release, issued last year when the construction of the fountain was announced...
...added that the recent warm weather has also prevented fountain operation. The fountain, which runs in the winter by spraying steam at 180 degrees, cannot operate when air temperature exceeds 40 degrees as the steam will not condense and will dangerously heat the spray jets, Oommen explained...
...single internal chambers and merely added the second compartment by subdividing the first. Eisner also offers strong evidence, in the form of "living fossils," that the bombardier did indeed evolve: proto-bombardiers have been found in Africa, California and Australia. One of the variations that he has studied can spray a burst of benzoquinones, but it lacks the bombardier's aiming mechanism and ends up with a repellent froth on its back. The bombardier's nozzle arrangement is obviously a refinement of this type of defense. Says Eisner: "This is evolution right before your eyes...