Word: worming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...suburbs loaded down with mortgage. Weak on the inside and plodding on the outside, Steve has been hitting the bottle. Afraid that his wife is low-rating him, he blurts: "There wouldn't be anything the matter with me if you didn't treat me like a worm . . . I'd like to get a little outside everyday life...
...fence-mending and make a few speeches, but he will not formally announce his availability until around the first of next year. Waiting until then would not be diffidence in the pre-convention 1952 manner. It is simply sensible timing: the early political bird often loses the worm...
...culture. However, for the most part these materials are welded into flowing metal metaphors. In contrast to painter Ferdinand Leger or the constructivist sculptors who have also integrated science and aesthetics, Calder is not primarily concerned with industrial or mechanical shapes. His design, as the titles "Spider" and "Big Worm--Little Worm" suggest, stems from nature. Beyond direct observation of natural phenomena the biological shapes of Arp and especially Miro have influenced...
...Knipling and his assistants raised male screw worm flies and exposed them to X rays. The flies suffered no obvious ill effects and were as successful as unexposed males in the pursuit of females. The difference was that the X-rayed males were sterile. This meant that every female with which one of them mated would lay infertile eggs for the rest of her life...
Results came quickly. Wounded goats exposed to the flies showed clusters of screw worm eggs, but many proved infertile. The females that laid the eggs had mated with sterilized males from Florida. After seven weeks, all eggs were infertile, and the screw worm population dropped toward the vanishing point. No eggs at all were collected after mid-October, and since November there have been no signs of screw worms on the island...