Blood dripped down the front of his sweater, soaking into a dark streak of dirt that ran diagonally across the white wool on his shoulder, as though the bright V woven into the neckline had melted, running a darker color.

He has designed a matching backdrop and costumes of points of color on white for Mr. Cunningham's Summerspace, so that dancers and background merge into a shimmering unity.

He concluded that selective service would not only prevent the disorganization of essential war industries but would avoid the undesirable moral effects of the British reliance on enlistment only -- `` where the feeling of the people was whipped into a frenzy by girls pinning white feathers on reluctant young men, orators preaching hate of the Germans, and newspapers exaggerating enemy outrages to make men enlist out of motives of revenge and retaliation ''.

He smiled and stuck a large finger with white hairs sprouting on it into his ear as though that might help.

They answered him in monosyllables, nods, occasionally muttering in Greek to one another, awaiting the word from Papa, who restlessly cracked his knuckles, anxious to stuff himself into his white Cadillac and burst off to the freeway.

Abel sat and regarded the farm country which, spreading out from both sides of the road, rolled greenly up to where the silent white houses and long barns and silos nested into the tilled fields.

With the field a blur of white the unfortunate pilot had simply flown into the hillside.

For galled breasts, the mother should shave into half a cup of fresh unsalted lard enough white chalk to make a paste.

`` Billions of American dollars, not only from capital investors but also from the pockets of U.S. taxpayers '', this author states, `` are being poured into South Africa to support a system dedicated to the oppression, the persecution, and the almost diabolical exploitation of 12 million people the color of whose skins happens not to be white ''.

Negro lawyers dug into the records of 300 white students, found that many were hardly interviewed at all -- and few had academic records as good as Hamilton Holmes.

Nor, when we recollect how sensitive were the emotions of the old Puritan stock in regard to the recent tides of immigration, should we be astonished that their thin lips were compressed into a white line of rage as Parker snarled at them thus: `` Talk about the Catholics voting as the bishop tells!!

They all surrounded him, the family circle, Theresa and George as solemn as if they were watching the cat have kittens, and Cousin Emma running back and forth with a kettle of hot water which she poured steaming into a white enamelled pan.

We left the main road and wound into the leafy fastnesses of the hills, till we reached a little hamlet and an isolated white villa high on the hillside.

On the left are the blue and white rhombuses of Bavaria, while the right half is split into two sliver and black triangles.

Amethystos prayed to the gods to remain chaste, a prayer which the goddess Artemis answered, transforming her into a white stone.

It melts at about 62 ° C to a fatty, yellow resinous liquid ; and at it is volatilized into a white vapor.

A similar story of a young girl transformed into a white deer can be found in Yorkshire, where it formed the basis for Wordsworth's poem The White Deer of Rylstone.

The AFL logo was incorporated into the newly minted AFC logo, although the color of the " A " was changed from blue and white to red.

Lithuanian baltas, Latvian balts ) has a word meaning " the white, the good ", and Grimm speculates that the name may originate as a Baltic loan into Proto-Germanic.

It also has a short, bristly and vertical brown ridge of hair along the spine from the shoulder to the rump ; the white stripes run into this ridge.

They were partly correct: a white dwarf slightly more massive than the Chandrasekhar limit will collapse into a neutron star, which is itself stable because of the Pauli exclusion principle.

For instance, Thomas Jefferson held persons who were legally white ( less than 25 % Black ) according to Virginia law at the time, but, because they were born to slave mothers, they were born into slavery, according to the principle of partus sequitur ventrem, which Virginia adopted into law in 1662.

The pieces are divided, by convention, into white and black sets.

Later, the Wistar family developed it into a self-sufficient farm until it became a Gentlemen's Farm owned by two different gentlemen farmers, Lorimer and Butler.

Some place it in a family Cricetidae that also includes voles, lemmings, and New World rats and mice ; others group all these into a large family called Muridae.

Studies at UCLA in 2008 have indicated that reactions to fairness are " wired " into the brain and that, " Fairness is activating the same part of the brain that responds to food in rats ...

However, administration of spearmint tea to rats causes dose-dependently temporary or permanent negative effects on the reproductive system of the male rat and leads to lipid peroxidation that results in histopathologies in the kidney, liver, and uterine tissues ; more research into the toxic effects of the tea in humans is warranted.

The loss of endemic vegetation, birds and other fauna, much of it within the first 50 years of discovery, can be attributed to the impact of humans and their introduction of goats, pigs, dogs, cats, rats as well as the introduction of non-endemic birds and vegetation into the island.

The " reality " of the story is enhanced through Poe's focus on sensation: the dungeon is airless and unlit, the narrator is subject to thirst and starvation, he is swarmed by rats, the closing walls are red-hot metal and, of course, the razor-sharp pendulum threatens to slice into the narrator.

It can be distinguished as a zone where the cortex narrows into a single layer of densely packed pyramidal neurons 3-6 cells deep in rats, which curl into a tight U shape ; one edge of the " U ," field CA4, is embedded into a backward facing strongly flexed V-shaped cortex, the dentate gyrus.

In young rats, the arrangement of place fields is usually altered if the rat is moved into a different environment, but remains the same if a rat is returned to an environment it has visited previously.

Outbreaks can be caused when a person eats an infected marmot or comes into contact with fleas carried by rats.

The nickname derives from the fact that one of the patient's symptoms was an obsessive fantasy concerning two people close to him, in which a pot of rats was fastened to their buttocks to gnaw into the anus.

The case received its name from a torture he had heard about from a military officer, where rats would eat their way into the anus of the victim.

The original intent of threatening Winston with the rats was not necessarily to go through with the act, but to force him into betraying the only person he loved and therefore break his spirit.

In the 16th century the story was expanded into a full narrative, in which the piper is a rat-catcher hired by the town to lure rats away with his magic pipe.

The man accepted, and played a musical pipe to lure the rats with a song into the Weser River, where all but one drowned.

For example, domesticated brown rats are not considered a plague threat, though exposure to wild rat populations could introduce pathogens like Salmonella into the home.

Hurrying into old caves and bricked gangways Scrooge never explored before below the Bin, they find a large crypt full of old books that were eaten by rats.

At the onset of REM sleep, the rat would either fall into the water only to clamber back to its pot to avoid drowning, or its nose would become submerged into the water Acute stress reaction | shocking it back to an awakened state. In the U. S., the numbers of rats and mice used is estimated at 20 million a year.

* Experiments into behavior, to understand how organisms detect and interact with each other and their environment, in which fruit flies, worms, mice, and rats are all widely used.

Twilight world is split into four zones: the Desert ( sand cats, mongooses, rattlesnakes, kangaroo rats and geckos ), the Rainforest ( slow loris, mouse deer, sloths, owl monkeys, aye-aye, possums and mouse lemurs ), the Cave ( scorpions, blind cave fish and naked mole rats ) and the House ( rats and mice ).

In 1954, Olds and Milner found that rats with metal electrodes implanted into their nucleus accumbens as well as their septal nuclei repeatedly pressed a lever activating this region, and did so in preference to eating and drinking, eventually dying of exhaustion.

However, they can be more destructive than desired: when imported into the West Indies to kill rats and snakes, they destroyed most of the small, ground-based fauna.