Word: venom
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...Lear's three daughters, Carrie Nye's Regan has strength and all the requisite viciousness. The other two are the chief disappointments in the cast. Rosemary Murphy looks hateful enough for the arch-villainous Goneril, but she lacks the requisite venom in her diction. Cordelia does not have many lines, but is a fully drawn character. As Anne Draper plays her, she emerges rather neutral. The role is pivotal for Cordelia represents the future ideal of love (as Edmund represents the primitive past and Lear the civilized present). This Cordelia does not emanate sufficient love...
Murdered Dummy. The workers did no such thing. After listening for a few seconds, one of them rushed over and furiously stabbed the dummy scout with her sting. Smelling the deathly odor of venom, the other bees withdrew. This ritual murder was repeated many times. Something was obviously wrong...
...failed to restore the monarchy, it helped in its negative goal, freeing France from the grip of the decadent Parliamentarians: during the six years of life remaining to the Third Republic, the A.F. fought any aggressive policy with all the venom of the defeated. When France fell, however, the Action Francaise fell with it; it was essentially parasitic, and died with its host...
...bees is anesthetized with a whiff of carbon monoxide, and then, one at a time, the insects are wrapped in a sash of aluminum foil that is connected to a source of high-voltage, low-current electricity. A brief shock causes the stinging muscles to contract and excrete venom...
Even though their milking system can cut collecting expeditions to a minimum, the Montana chemists look forward to the day when that part of their job may be done away with completely. Now that there is a better way of collecting venom, scientists even hope to learn how to synthesize the poison in the laboratory...