Word: venomous
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...Though Greece is not specifically mentioned, it is plainly the subject. The opening contribution, a poem by Nobel Prizewinner George Seferis, recounts an old Cypriot tale in which a bunch of cats (read colonels) wipe out an invasion of snakes (read Communists), only to wind up poisoned by snake venom. A second story alludes to a remark of Premier Papadopoulos that contemporary Greece is like a patient in a plaster cast, which will be removed only when the patient is politically cured. In the story, a pair of mad doctors are zealously outfitting a man in a plaster cast from...
...them as one more sign that nature, despite man's insistence on squelching out, in the name of progress, every living thing that stands in his way, can be conquered only as man himself is annihilated. Nature, however, is just. That no one succumbed to the venom suggests to me the peaceful ways of most living things other than man. No, I do not see the snakes as seeking revenge (justified though they may be) upon the bulldozer, but as serpents coming to tempt us, before it is too late, back to the Garden of Eden...
...twice weekly column in Tel Aviv's daily Ha'aretz (circ. 50,000) is called "An Arrow from Sylvie's Bow," the title being a play on her last name, which is Hebrew for bow. More often than not, Sylvie's arrows are dipped in venom. Her columns have twice prevented prominent politicians from being appointed to the Cabinet. Now, she says with a twinkle in her eye, most of Israel's political leaders "politely refuse...
...either luck or a testimony to nervous caution that there have been no deaths. The snakes are Northern Pacific rattlers, whose venom carries a hemolytic agent that destroys the red blood cells. Roughly one foot long at birth (they grow up to five feet), the snakes bear enough poison from the time they leave the nest to kill a full-grown...
...teacher has encouraged her to conduct the experiment of growing marigold seeds that have been subjected to gamma rays. When she is asked to deliver a small speech on the subject in her high school auditorium, the cauldron of the mother's repressions, frustrations, aborted love and accumulated venom boils over...