Word: constrictors
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...Friday, when a Florida jury returned their $145 billion verdict against the country's largest cigarette manufacturers, attorneys for Philip Morris (which was ordered to pay more than $70 billion of the punitive damages) met the news with the same charm one might expect from an ill-tempered boa constrictor. Several were actually frothing at the mouth...
...creative breadth: playwright, actor, composer, lyricist, novelist, stage director, film producer, Vegas "entertainer." His nose for talent was such that he launched Laurence Olivier's career and produced the first four films directed by David Lean. "Success," he once said, "took me to her bosom like a maternal boa constrictor...
...foot-long boa constrictor escaped from its cage in a Harvard Medical School student's dorm room yesterday, slithering into a heating duct before it was recaptured by University officials who lured the animal out with chicken meat after cutting a hole in the student's wall...
...There were four environmental health and safety officers on the scene, so I'm sure that people in the building know," Medical School spokesperson Keren R. McGinity said before the boa constrictor was caught...
Jose P. Rosado, a herpetologist, or snake expert, at Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology, said a domesticated boa constrictor is harmless, except when in "feeding mode...