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And, like all self-fertilizing bureaucracies, the operation began to -- you'll pardon the expression -- mushroom into a massive cloud of covert nuclear activity.
Tom Alderman: "Bomb Power," or How the Atomic Bomb Ended a War, Increased Presidential Power and Eroded the Constitution Tom Alderman 2010
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And, like all self-fertilizing bureaucracies, the operation began to -- you'll pardon the expression -- mushroom into a massive cloud of covert nuclear activity.
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And, like all self-fertilizing bureaucracies, the operation began to -- you'll pardon the expression -- mushroom into a massive cloud of covert nuclear activity.
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We become our own self-fertilizing, mobile edible estates.
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Sexual dimorphism was a shift from mothers self-fertilizing to being fertilized by a partner.
"My problem was, how am I going to draw God?" Ann Althouse 2009
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Flirtatious stigmas and stamens reflect the self-fertilizing nonchalance of a fruit which is edible when it borders on rotting.
Medlar: The Fruit of Misunderstanding Michelle Krell Kydd 2008
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We become our own self-fertilizing, mobile edible estates.
Archive 2008-08-01 2008
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Flirtatious stigmas and stamens reflect the self-fertilizing nonchalance of a fruit which is edible when it borders on rotting.
Archive 2008-02-01 Michelle Krell Kydd 2008
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He was not successful in his quest for gold; however, five centuries later, it appears that he may have unknowingly stumbled upon something even more valuable than gold: rich, self-fertilizing, and self maintaining soil.
Making Terra Preta Soil: Ramona's Recipe for Home-Made Dirt 2008
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Most notostracans have separate males and females (gonochoristic), but self-fertilizing hermaphrodites are not uncommon.
Crustacea 2008
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