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...bush by his two hind legs and gropes hopefully with the other six. If, animal or man brushes past the bush, the tick grabs on with all eight legs, makes for the skin. Having attached himself, the tick bores in with his hard snout and begins to suck blood...
Female ticks are deadlier than males. They gorge themselves to the bursting point (five or six times normal size) and, if disease carriers, are just as dangerous to the tick picker who pops them as to the victim whose blood they suck. The male is flatter, smaller, less greedy. When he is sated, he noses around the host until he finds a feeding female, mates with her on the spot, moves away to start all over again. When the female is completely engorged, she drops off, finds herself a cranny to lay her eggs in (5,000 at a time...
...towards Argentina that has strengthened Peron and bewildered what Latin-American supporters the State Department has left. When Ambassador Braden interfered with internal Argentine politics in a get tough policy, Peron was swept into office among cries of "Yankee Imperialism" and the current attitude of appeasement allowed Argentina to suck Bolivia into its fold...
...bottles, decanters and glasses, a personal combination-lock safe. Properly fortified, the executive could return to the "business" side and to the desk's most dazzling feature: a magnetized pen holder. The executive need only place his pen close to the holder, let go and the magnet would suck the pen into place in the holder...
...rose & fell in practiced intonation, while he raised a warning finger, clenched his right fist, grandly embraced Congress in widespread arms, or modestly spread his long, strong fingers against his chest in a self-effacing gesture, men & women stared seriously and intensely, many with mouths agape as if to suck in the meaning of the precious words...