Word: sucking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...range-parts of West Virginia, Virginia and North Carolina. This year's Brood X, hatching from eggs laid in 1919, is among the largest. It ranges from Michigan to Georgia, from eastern Missouri to Long Island. Tibicina septendecim is a toothless insect, does not eat plants but simply sucks at them. It makes no attempt to escape from sparrows, its greatest enemy. The female damages orchards and vineyards by using her sawtooth appendage to carve grooves in which to lay her eggs. When the larvae hatch from the eggs, they fall to the ground, dig in, attach themselves...
Last year Representatives were thoroughly embarrassed when Mr. & Mrs. Everett Parker of Newport, Tenn. settled down with their four children in the House gallery, and Mother Parker, undoing her dress, gave her youngest suck. As tactfully as possible the House doorkeeper ushered the jobless family out while Congressmen, torn between personal modesty and political respect for motherhood, felt their ears grow red (TIME, July 8). Last week the luckless Parker family again made front-page news on the floor of the House...
...Trees suck it up; it stains their trunks and branches...
...passage. Secretary Morgenthau conferred with him nearly every day. Budget Director Bell, Secretaries Wallace and Ickes, Assistant WPAdministrator Williams, RFChairman Jones, Rexford G. Tugwell, Chester Davis, Housing Administrator McDonald came & went. It would be safer to steer a little toward the Rock of Taxes, for the Congressional current would suck him back anyway to the Whirlpool. Hence he confirmed the fact that he would ask about half a billion in taxes to pay for his AAA substitute. On Bonus taxes he still remained silent. Meantime he took two steps to reassure the public that he was steering toward Economy...
...home with the satisfaction, if it is a satisfaction, that you have rendered a blow against law enforcement and given aid and encouragement to the people who would flout the law. In all probability they will commend you. I cannot. The clerk will give you your vouchers." Like suck-egg dogs, the jurors slunk out of the room, their eyes on the floor...