Word: burrows
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...little spots. Those creepy little legs. Oh, sure, some people think they’re cute. And we’ll concede that their penchant for munching on aphids is a useful one. But can you imagine a huge mass of ladybugs swarming all over your windows, trying to burrow in through the cracks as you stare in horror...
...like Mexico's two largest drug gangs, the Gulf and Sinaloa cartels, is also famous for beheading rival traffickers. U.S. Attorney General Holder suggested Thursday that La Familia's "depravity" exceeds that of the Gulf and Sinaloa groups. (See pictures of the sophisticated tunnels the drug cartels use to burrow beneath the border...
...little spots. Those creepy little legs. Oh, sure, some people think they’re cute. And we’ll concede that their penchant for munching on aphids is a useful one. But can you imagine a huge mass of ladybugs swarming all over your windows, trying to burrow in through the cracks as you stare in horror...
...power of the bombs employed has gone "way up." Twenty-pound charges have been replaced by oil drums packed with hundreds of pounds of explosives, set off by trip wires and pressure plates, that are capable of reducing up-armored humvees to pieces. Under cover of darkness, IED teams burrow deep under the tarmac or wheelbarrow bombs into rain culverts, which number into the thousands in some provinces, spread out over hundreds of miles of road...
...Hong Kong movie [2002's Infernal Affairs] that inspired him to make the second remake of his career (after Cape Fear) ... I have often thought that many of Scorsese's critics and admirers do not realize how deeply the Catholic Church of pre-Vatican II could burrow into the subconscious, or in how many ways Scorsese is a Catholic director. This movie is like an examination of conscience, when you stay up all night trying to figure out a way to tell the priest: I know I done wrong, but, oh, Father, what else was I gonna...