Word: wall
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...Pause That Destroys. Fortunately, the female Anopheles (only the female sucks blood, transmits malaria) is a shy creature of habit. Except in a few areas, she does no hunting outdoors, seeks her victims in their homes. She slips unobtrusively into a hut, rests a while on a wall, buzzes down to gorge herself on a drop of blood (often, in the process, infecting her victim with the parasites in her saliva), then rests on a wall before heading out. In a dwelling whose walls have been sprayed with DDT, these pauses are her undoing. As long as six months after...
...Radcliffe freshmen: "Better not be engaged until twenty-two. You are then more competent to judge the honesty and falsity of man. Nature has thrown a wall of maidenly modesty around you. Preserve that and not let your affection be trifled with while too young by any youthful flirt who is in search of hearts to conquer...
...apartment at Delray Beach, Fla., Smith said he will now relinquish most of his everyday managing duties, concentrate more on long-range planning and policymaking. Cheered by the stock market's quick snapback and high volume of trading last week (see State of Business), the top man in Wall Street's top brokerage house saw a good year ahead for M.L.P.F. & S. Said he: "Company after company is going to need more money to expand, and they will have to come to Wall Street...
...complexifying thing, it turns out. is that Gwen is a virgin of 35, desperately posing as a woman of the world. In moods of blue solitude, she drags down her poet-father's hidden collection of pornographic slides and projects a few lubricious scenes on the fireplace wall. Poor Dave, the man of "exquisite sensibilities," breaks training altogether by bedding down with a shapeless lump of sensuality from the brassiere factory and later marrying her. Finally, his wife's berserk first husband plants a bullet in his brain. After what Dave has been through, this is arguably...
Their backs to the wall after an ignominious defeat by Tufts earlier in the week, the Crimson varsity basketball team fought valiantly this week-end, smashing Columbia, 80-61, Friday, and then losing, 58-55, in the last eight seconds to Cornell on the next night...