Word: twigs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trouble comes when the female lays her eggs. She picks a tender twig, saws a slit in it with a rasplike ovipositor on her stern, lays her eggs in the slit, and soon dies. The weakened limbs may break or die too. After several weeks the eggs hatch, the larvae crawl out and drop down on the ground where they bury themselves for 16 years, 10½ months. Then, on the first hot day of May, they climb out of the ground, shed their shells, sprout wings and start a plague...
Novelist John C. Hawkes '47, too, should help to strengthen the pro-Miller leanings of the panel. Known for his literary psycho-sexual fantasies, Hawkes has written, among others, the much- heralded The Cannibal and, most recently, The Lime Twig...
Will it survive in the next? The full weight of the state is brought to bear on every twig, to bend it into a Communist attitude. The Marxist interpretation colors every subject that is taught in school, and after school the children are marshaled in youth battalions and kept too busy to think anything but what they are told to think. To gain its end. the state plays ruthlessly upon the natural ambitions of the young: boys and girls are warned that if they do not conform they will be denied admission to college...
...also carefully groomed a daringly different successor, Vice President Harry Ransom, who became president last fall when Wilson moved up to chancellor. Says one admiring facultyman of Ransom, who now becomes chancellor: "He doesn't just walk out on a limb for you. He climbs out on a twig, and jumps up and down on the leaf...
...wrong when he talks as if the United States were in a position to do anything about Fidel Castro. At first it seemed as though Kennedy were suggesting unilateral American action to topple Castro's government, but it turns out that he was only talking loudly and brandishing a twig, for he now seems to say that what he really meant was that any U.S. action should include the other Latin American nations. Since these nations are not about to sanction U.S. intervention of any sort (which would violate the letter and the spirit of the treaties they have induced...