Word: virginals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...must have added Alaska, Hawaii, Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam and Wake...
Emma moved steadily westward, then veered northward off the Virgin Islands. Meteorologists figured that she would probably keep on going northward-as most Caribbean hurricanes have done before -through a low-pressure trough created by two high-pressure banks. But the "highs" converged so fast that the big 'cane's northward path was blocked. For six hours, she stood ominously still near the Bahamas. When she started to roll again, she headed westward, straight for Florida's southeast Gold Coast...
Chief trouble with bees as breeding material is their system of mating. Mating never takes place within the hive. Indoors, drones (males) and virgin queens ignore one another completely...
Agriculture now believes it has the situation under control. Its bee scientists fasten a virgin queen in a small tube and drug her with carbon dioxide. After a while she lays a mass of unfertilized eggs, which can develop only into drones (another odd bee characteristic). The bee men rear these parthenogenetic males to maturity. Then they use one of them to inseminate artificially the same, still-virgin queen. Thereafter her eggs are fertile and develop into females (workers or queens) fathered by her own fatherless...
...drugs) who for years told his stories up and down Central America. General René was so worried that a lot of the products of his ex-employer would have to be used in San Jose that he kept three holy candles (especially blessed at the Shrine of the Virgin of Suyate, patroness of Central American generals) in his headquarters. Whenever bad news came, he lit one; when good news came, he blew it out. Once he caught me staring at him and snapped: 'Only got three. Can't afford to waste...