Word: stingers
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Because despite all the talk, Harvard is no nest of erotic bedlam. And oddly enough, coed living appears to be partially responsible for the sexual stalemate. It maximizes the opportunities for sex--sex would be as natural as a stinger after dinner. But sex at Harvard doesn't seem to be much past the talking stage. Harvard has failed to naturalize the situation it contrived for itself. And the reasons for this go deeper than coed living...
...example of verse that gets by only by not trying very hard. When a poem looks only like a carefully written sentence chopped up into verses, it's clearly written with a misunderstanding of what makes poetry. "The Unknown Neighbor" is an effectively elegaic recollection with an unnecessary stinger for a last line; it's the most obvious example in the Advocate of a style of would-be poetry that suffers less from a misuse of form--unlimited possibilities of word-clash and harmony--than it does from an unwillingness to consider form...
...worst of the pests is the female pasture mosquito (Aëdes nigromaculus). Though it does not transmit diseases to man, the creature is a vicious stinger and travels in swarms as dense as 2,000,000 per acre in Southern California. In parts of the San Joaquin Valley, the pests are so thick at dawn and dusk-their feeding times-that people hardly dare step outdoors. Because of the insects, schools at times have been closed, farm workers have refused to tend crops, and dairy cows, stung on their udders, have produced no milk...
...these high school kids who let their hair grow and don't wash and then in September hurry back to mommy," Stinger said...
...This is a terrible place for runaways," Stinger said. "They find some guy to take them in, and they think he's being really nice, but they get screwed and turned on before they're ready to handle...