grasshoppers

• “Shades of Scott Westerfeld's brilliant vampirism-as-parasitic-infection novel Peeps -- New Scientist reports that a worm that thrives in grasshoppers and crickets somehow convinces its hosts into drowning themselves, leaving the worms in a better breeding position:”

  Boing Boing: September 4, 2005 - September 10, 2005 Archives

• “What we call grasshoppers that is; and what are, really, locusts.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Short Stories

• “I'll be spry as a kitten catchin 'grasshoppers in a week.”

  Comrades

• ““The grasshoppers were the best,” Julia continued.”

  Simon & Schuster: Getting Air

• “There was not a breath of wind; the sunlight shone down on the bare hillside; the loud chirp of the grasshoppers was the only sound.”

  The Hill of Dreams

• “The grasshoppers are a concern for ranchers as well as farmer.”

  KUSA-TV -

• “Israeli leaders have described them [Palestinians] as "two-legged beasts," "grasshoppers," "drugged roaches running around in a bottle," etc.”

  On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...

• “The racist language includes: "two-legged beasts," "grasshoppers," "drugged roaches running around in a bottle," from such sources as Prime Minister Menachem Begin, Foreign Minister/Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, Chief of Staff Rafael Eitan.”

  On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...

• “Take your Chomsky comments as an example of missing context; "two-legged beasts," "grasshoppers," "drugged roaches running around in a bottle,"/”

  On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...

• “Frankly I can think of a whole bunch of much worse names than "two-legged beasts," "grasshoppers," "drugged roaches running around in a bottle,”

  On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...

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