Word: venoms
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...Africa were accidentally released. Sounding like a small airplane in flight, the hordes have been traveling at the rate of more than 300 miles a year. The bees are more aggressive than most domestic strains; when disturbed or defending their nests, they frequently attack animals and humans. Although their venom is no more potent than that of European bees, they are much likelier to sting, and so many sting at once that serious injury, even death, can result. Hundreds have died from such attacks in Latin America...
...center table. Carefully he flattens and immobilizes its head with a hook and picks it up just behind the jaw. He sticks the tail between his legs to keep it from coiling free and hangs the snake's fangs over a glass beaker. When he squeezes, a teaspoon of venom drips out. Then he walks around the pit giving spectators a close-up of the snake's satiny pink mouth, its curved fangs, black tongue. When Kelly Head, 19, the new Miss Snake Charmer, gets into the demonstration pit with Bill Ransberger, the snake handler, and picks up a snake...
...organize the roundup as a community fund raiser, claim that of some 40 in the country, theirs is the largest and oldest, drawing crowds of 8,000 a day. They expect to clear about $40,000 from the take at the door and the sale of skins, meat and venom...
...implication was that For the Record was unique in its venom and singular in its criticism. Yet apart from its astrological revelations and acid-limned portrait of the First Lady, it is not so much in a class by itself as the latest addition to a long, groaning shelf. Deaver. Haig. Stockman. Speakes. Regan. Even two Reagan children, Patti and Michael, have written slap-and-yell books about the First Family. And more are on the way. Helene von Damm, once Reagan's personal assistant and later Ambassador to Austria, has reportedly penned something less than a valentine...
...progresses, so does she, unleashing her talent as Susan loses her grip. She plays the part so the audience doesn't know whether to feel sympathetic or repulsed. It's disturbing to watch Susan's forceful personality grow into something malicious until she becomes a large blonde cobra spitting venom at her husband, the long-suffering Raymond Brock (Josh Frost). "I married him because he reminded me of my father," she says at a diplomatic gathering. "I didn't realize how much of a shit my father was." And it's mysteriously touching near the end, when she wistfully tells...