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...salt-marsh species so thoroughly adapted themselves to life with DDT that it took ten times the regular dose to kill their wiggler offspring. The discovery justified an uneasy suspicion held by entomologists: when the weaker members of the tribe are killed off, the survivors, mating together, gradually produce a strain that can ignore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: DDT Down, 2,4-D Up | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

...Belly-Wiggler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 22, 1947 | 12/22/1947 | See Source »

Being in a Cuban prison, sometimes articles about me do not reach my hands until a late date. But I definitely resent your stating that I am a "Belly-Wiggler" and a "HonkyTonk Dancer" [TIME, May 5]. ... Perhaps I haven't worked Carnegie Hall, but I have always taken my dancing seriously and have studied (very hard) the semi-classical dances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 22, 1947 | 12/22/1947 | See Source »

...TIME, no wiggler, stands corrected. -ED. Blood Pressure Sirs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 15, 1932 | 2/15/1932 | See Source »

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