Word: stilettos
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...times that number of followers. Among these New York Times Correspondent Herbert Matthews last week found the Maffia "deeply involved." The separatists claim that Sicily would be better off if free of Rome's remote control. The Maffia favors freedom too-to carry on its own peculiar stiletto justice...
...some clue to his election strategy. They knew that they might find the key to it in Parliament, where he has sat for 28 years. A cold personality to the average voter, Mr. King takes on more color on the front bench, becomes a calculating wielder of the oratorical stiletto...
...shorts, letting the sweat roll down his bald head. Or fie inspects the solid fence-posts hewed out of bois d'arc (pronounced, in Texas, bo-dark), or sits popping huge chunks of red watermelon into his mouth from the end of a rancher's stiletto, or plays a little dominoes with his brothers. (They usually win.) At night he can sit on a rope-bottomed chair in the tall grass and gossip with his friends, while his two terriers catch cicadas and Hereford cattle low in the distance...
Invisible weapons might include: a six-inch lady's hatpin, or a wrist knife strapped to the wrist with the hilt downwards; a knife hung around the neck; a small revolver held up the sleeve by rubber bands; a stiletto with a nine-inch blade. Other useful weapons : a hammer, cheese-cutters (wires with wooden handles, handy for garroting) ; a handkerchief with a fistful of sand in it. Besides blankets, extra socks, binoculars, rifles, burnt cork to blacken the face, etc., an important part of the equipment is 25 to 30 yards of fishline. This has many uses...
Smartest way for man to fight the insects who rival him for the earth's bounty is to turn insect against insect. The wasp Microbracon mellitor assassinates boll weevils (which last year destroyed 12-14% of the South's cotton), so this week an army of these stiletto-bearing flyers is being propagated at the University of Texas.* The Texas wasp dashes among cotton rows, seeks out bolls full of weevil larvae, plunges her stiletto into each grub, forces an egg through the hollow tube into each paralyzed victim, then flits on to another boll. In two days...