Word: leaf
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...More DDT. Chief defoliator is the two-inch-long larva of the gypsy moth, a fuzzy brown caterpillar with blue and red spots that daily consumes one square foot of tree leaves (but not farm crops). Almost any kind of tree leaf from maple and pine to magnolia is meat for its mandibles. What makes the gluttonous insect so Jiard to control is that it has lacked natural enemies. It was imported from Europe to Massachusetts in 1869 by Leopold Trouvelot, a misguided naturalist who hoped to crossbreed the hardy moths with silkworms and start a new textile industry. Instead...
...last mourner had left; she was often wakened, she says, by rats as big as full-grown cats that (for reasons perhaps best left unexamined) lived in the mortuary cellar. At 16, Ann-Margret sang on Ted Mack's Original Amateur Hour but lost out to "a Mexican leaf player," and at 19 she turned up in Las Vegas. She had a firecracker energy and a hot, staccato style that could take your eye off a charging tiger...
...fashioned hedonism remains an attraction. "I'll roam until my book of traveler's checks gets down to the last leaf," said Viet Nam Veteran Steve Verich of Akron, Ohio, traveling in West Germany. "When I was in the jungle, I vowed that if I ever got out alive, I'd spend a long time in Europe-drinking the local brand and making it with all the chicks until I got my fill. Then I'd return home to do something constructive. But now my traveler's checks are nearly gone, and I still haven...
...subsequently published leaf-lets bearing pictures of Kennedy with the caption "Wanted for Murder" for allegedly refusing to fill in the Pond-even though Kennedy's position has little relation to Harvard's real estate dealings...
Well, no great mystery; the caprifole stanza continues botanically: "Downward a leaf inclines its tip/ and drops from its tip a pearl." It is clear that Nabokov is describing a rain-wet shrub, but has his own good reasons for leaving indefinite precisely which shrub. It is as if he had written of a cavalryman saddling his ungulate (horse? cow? moose?) and riding away...