Word: stowaways
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Panama, where the Canal Commission maintains 24-hour bee-control teams to stop stowaway killer bees, quarantine posts are being established on roads leading out of the southern Mexico defense area to prevent swarms from hitchhiking. Whole colonies have made their way to California on board freighters, but all the known stowaways have been destroyed...
...field and sets rules for the listing game. One such rule is that birds reaching North America through human assistance cannot be counted, touching off speculation on whether the Western Reef heron that drew hundreds of birders to Nantucket, Mass., in 1983 actually came over from Africa as a stowaway on a boat. The ABA checklist committee voted to accept the bird...
...missed the show. In less time than it takes to stowaway on a herring boat, the mini-summit had come and gone. I was depressed. "Rutger," I said, "tell me. How could it end so quickly...
...more frustration and anger in day-to-day business than perhaps any others. Company policy aggravates the public which sometimes needs a little understanding, and it stifles creative employees who might want to use some initiative and take some responsibility. Now it could be that Helen Hayes as the stowaway in Airport gave old ladies such a bad name that they are immediately suspect upon entering the terminal, but it seems so much more likely that the woman had actually dropped her ticket. If the ticket agents or even the supervisors were given a little more room to exercise their...
...wounded tries to disentangle himself from the limbs of the dead. A soldier in regular uniform starts throwing gear onto the ground, then the dead. The corpses are arranged around the gunship, one here, one over there, one face up, another face down. A medic leads the stowaway off. The crew still stands by the craft, but no one wishes to move or speak. It is a moment of shock and disgrace. I squeeze the pilot's shoulder. "You see," he says, "here there really is a war going...