Word: clovered
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...Pedigree of Honey Does not concern the Bee- A Clover, any time, to him, Is Aristocracy...
That, alas, is precisely the problem. Now roughly a century after that flight of poetic fancy, clover and, indeed, a host of other crops have been laced with a chemical pesticide that may threaten the blissful honeybee with extinction. The culprit is methyl parathion, which has been used to combat pests like the boll weevil, scourge of the cotton fields. But methyl parathion is highly dangerous stuff. Only a dab will penetrate the skin, attack the nervous system and kill humans as well as insects...
...heat of summer was mellow and produced sweet scents which lay in the air so damp and rich you could almost taste them. Bees buzzed in the clover. Far away from the fields the chug of an ancient steam-powered threshing machine could be faintly heard. Birds rustled under the tin porch of the roof...
...members of the Senate, however, were not rolling in clover. Alabama Democrat Donald W. Stewart said that he had assets of between $355,000 and $890,000, but that he owed between $505,000 and $1.1 million. Massachusetts Democrat Paul E. Tsongas has assets of about $50,000 more than his liabilities, including a debt to Yale Law School...
Muppets live in suitcases, and Muppet people live out of suitcases. Jim Henson gave up the key of his rented Mulholland Drive hacienda, with its obligatory indoor-outdoor clover-leaf-shaped pool, and flew to Manhattan. There he rallied the support troops at HA! headquarters and conferred with his increasingly large staff of business people...