Word: venom
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...easiest way to obtain bee venom is to get stung. But the method is plainly neither pleasant nor practical. Scientists anxious to gather the poison usually settle for a more cautious approach. They collect live insects, grab them one at a time with a pair of tweezers, then deftly slice out the venom sac; or else they persuade the stinging insects to discharge their poison through a rubber membrane...
...wonder is that he had time to write at all. Small (4 ft. 6 in.), sickly, and morbidly sensitive, he despised the world with fine impartiality, managing to skewer 63 "major" enemies in his verses and more minor ones than anybody cared to count. But he always had venom to spare for Colley Gibber, the actor-turned-playwright who improbably became the poet laureate of England. Of Gibber's appointment, Pope wrote...
...operate at a high level, one ought to deny himself--no matter how reluctantly--even the best of a low level. Not that I would proscribe all comedy in this play; there is much, and most of it is appropriate. And while I should not temper one bit the venom and vitriol and vulgarity of Albee's dialogue, I do think the play would benefit from less profanity...
...Choice Venom. With a father's sure instinct, Arthur James Pegler. a Hearst reporter himself, forbade his son to go into journalism. But Westbrook heeded his father no more than he did anyone else. He quit high school to take a job with United...
...first, Pegler supported Franklin Roosevelt. He voted for F.D.R. in 1936 and called Eleanor Roosevelt the "greatest American woman." But he soon turned misanthropic. In columns that grew steadily more vitriolic, he referred to Roosevelt as a "feebleminded fuehrer," Eleanor as "La Boca Grande." He reserved his choicest venom for Harry Truman: "thin-lipped, a hater and not above offering you his hand to yank you off balance and work you over with a chair leg, pool cue or something out of his pocket." After the assassination attempt on Truman in 1950, Pegler berated "hypocrites" for getting excited. "I hope...