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...spider is venomous, with a bite that opens an ulcerous wound in the victim's skin. The injury is localized but usually slow to heal. As yet, no humans have been reported bitten by the species which avoids contact and attacks only when touched or trapped...
...spiders are seldom seen in the public parts of the museum, and the zoologists and students who work in the laboratories are almost pleased to have them around. No one yet has been bitten; laetas are shy and rarely attack man. But a bite is sharp and painful, and the slow-acting poison can be dangerous. For at least 24 hours the victim shows no symptoms; then a swelling appears and the site of the bite turns into a large, purplish pimple that heals slowly. In a few cases there is hemolysis (destruction of red blood cells), which...
...Cabinet position-by his effective 1960 preconvention work for Kennedy in the Southwest. No sooner had he taken over his Cabinet office than he allowed as how Democratic Congressmen had better go along with the Kennedy Administration's effort to liberalize the House Rules Committee or lose their bite at the Interior Department's pork-barrel appropriations; this sort of talk annoyed all kinds of Congressmen. Next, Udall sent out a letter to oil and gas men, many of whom were doing business with the Interior Department, dunning them for contributions to a Democratic fundraising dinner; for this...
Handling a testy racing bike is tough work for a man, but to Jill Savage it is almost always just plain fun. "When you look at a good bike," she says, "it's like looking at a steeplechase horse. It's lovely. When you feel the tires bite the turf and the bike take off. and you know you've judged it just right, and you can feel the power waiting to take a bite again-that's simply gorgeous...
...brain is already grappling with the most advanced encephalopathological problems of 1975. Meanwhile, he is a first-class, unsutured, 1961-style son of a bitch. Handling several cases an ABC-hour, his kindest words for his fellow physicians are: "What the hell do you use for brains?" Rabid women bite him. But, for all his foaming at the mouth, Casey is a marvelous character in a show that accurately captures the feeling of sleepless intensity in a metropolitan hospital...