Word: thrips
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...Matures so quickly that the boll weevil, a late spring starter, can do it little damage. It is also practically immune to the bud-eating thrip...
...worth a thrip." Your footnote (TIME, Nov. 6) on Mr. Glass's rating of Hitler's promises explains thrip as being British slang for the threepenny piece...
...Thrip...
...other hand the thrip is a pestiferous insect much disliked by orchardists in California and elsewhere. The Encyclopedia describes it as of the order of Hexapoda, has firmly chitinized cuticle, and can be recognized by the combination of imperfectly suctorial jaws. It is also habitually parthenogenetic...
...pestiferous, parthenogenetic thrip may well seem comparable to Hitler's promises. But Carter Glass meant a threepenny piece. ("Tizzy" is British slang for sixpence...