Word: harmlessness
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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When the web is completed, Aranea runs a silken "telephone line" to her nearby lair, and waits for prey. The slightest vibration of the web brings her out on the run. If the victim is a fly or some other small and harmless insect, she drinks its blood on the spot, or paralyzes it with poison from her fangs and takes it to her lair to be kept in storage. If the catch is a big, vigorous, dangerous intruder (a honeybee or a grasshopper), the spider turns her back and squirts out silk in a broad band from...
...Senators stayed ahead. In the ninth inning Boston got two men on base, and Sox Sluggers Ted Williams and Vern Stephens were due to hit. Bucky Harris picked up the dugout phone and summoned Relief Pitcher Mickey Harris (no kin) from the bullpen. Mickey subdued Williams and Stephens with harmless infield groundouts...
...deadly cargo: anti-tank and anti-personnel mines for Pakistan's army, 2,000 cases of dynamite for blasting in Afghanistan. It was a tough but familiar job to the dockers. From the cars they moved the cases across the dock to four lighters, stowed them in neat, harmless-looking piles. When the job was done, the cargo would be ferried out to a freighter...
...Treasury] sends a directive to what is known as the 'appropriate ministry,' where an official keeps it three weeks, rewrites it so the main point is obscured, sends it to the wrong man in our company, who rephrases it in trade jargon so that it is perfectly harmless, and acknowledges it in that form to the ministry, where it is later released as an agreement. Meanwhile, our investment program, which was decided on by us some time before, is well under...
...time. And the columns of the CRIMSON will cease to resemble a Louella Parsons forum on The Moral Cupidity of lugrid Bergman, and perhaps return to subjects worthier of its aspiring journalists and ostensibly-intelligent contributors. Please, please, let us enjoy one of women's oldest and most harmless prerogatives: the last word. Susan Seldman '50 Dorothy Judd '51 Judy Illsley '51 Janice Bowman '51 Shirley Laird '53 Marianne Sorensen...