Word: caterpillared
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...charge of two LCMs (landing craft, mechanized), Telker had set out on a routine job of ferrying caterpillar tractors from Leyte to nearby Samar. He was puzzled when Jap planes strafed his craft, dumfounded when, after putting ashore in a small cove to reconnoiter, he was welcomed by jubilant Filipinos uttering flowery phrases...
...TIME (July 31) ... you state that the new insecticide DDT is deadly against the gypsy-moth caterpillar, black fly and mosquito. You have overlooked the fact that it is also deadly against the honey bee. . . . According to tests made at Michigan State College it has been found effective against flies, mosquitoes, ants, berry moths, leaf hoppers, thrips, and even rose chafers, but they have also found it ineffective against aphids, plant lice, Mexican bean beetle, and it just makes cockroaches drunk...
Within a week, despite rains that would have washed out normal insecticides, the caterpillar population was liquidated with out a trace. Entomologist C. F. Campbell thereupon gaily offered a dollar bounty (out of his own pocket) for every live caterpillar found in the treated area. By last week he had not lost a dollar...
...story centers around 9-year-old Stinky and his pet dancing caterpillar, Curley. Jerry Flynn, a washed-up producer, sees a gold mine in Curley and sets out to exploit him as the phenomenon of the century. Stinky, quito naturally, will not part with his pot, and Flynn spends three reels trying to make the worm a national figure without breaking the boy's heart. Newspaper headlines scream the daily intimacies of Curley's life. School children wear Curley sweaters. And everyone stops worrying about the war for a minute to sit back dreamily and think about the charming fairy...
Once Upon a Time (Columbia) a little boy named Stinky found a caterpillar named Curley, a threadbare theatrical agent found them both, and things began to happen fast. Curley was not just a worm; he could do a turn. Whenever Stinky munched Yes, Sir, That's My Baby on his mouth organ, Curley got up on his points and danced. The agent soon made his fame global. He was the toast of feature writers, the darling of lepidopterists. He was photographed embracing Mayor LaGuardia's finger, strolling up a model's leg. LIFE...