Worker Bee

Word WORKER BEE
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Ari Marcoupolos Ccover of the Tyson Chandler zine "Everybody was talking about Dirk Nowitzki, but here was this guy who was a worker-bee player," Marcopoulos said. ❋ Ben Cohen (2011)

It's an apt name for the small outpost of about 16 seats serving the Grand Central worker-bee crowd. ❋ Unknown (2011)

It's not as important that I am a good worker-bee, consumer or taxpayer as it is that I am a good father. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Peggy is portrayed as smarter and more ambitious, the worker-bee who can hardly relate to Joan. ❋ Unknown (2010)

As a worker-bee volunteer in a distant city, it didn't seem productive to contact a First Book executive about my frustrations. ❋ Karen Blumenthal (2010)

Where would our companies and country be without the worker-bee? ❋ Unknown (2009)

One of those mistakes being the appointing of political friends, major donors, or out-of-touch Ivory Tower academics to worker-bee positions that must be filled by those who have walked the walk. ❋ Unknown (2009)

But most of the worthies who come to Kalamazoo do so as "presiders" whose sole job is to lend the gravitas of their names to sessions and introduce the worker-bee scholars who will actually read papers, thus being spared the drudgery of either writing a paper or doing the organizing. ❋ Papabear (2008)

While corruption is kept under control at the worker-bee level, the defense business is a dodgy one when it comes to who wins contracts and what contracts are awarded. ❋ Unknown (2006)

If she loses to Jim Alger she has cashed in all of her favors and other than a worker-bee she will be useless in the local party. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Just as a worker-bee inherits a specific form of nervous system which coöperates with the other equally determined organic systems, wherefore the animal is forced to perform "instinctively" its peculiar specialized tasks, so the mental capacity of a human being is largely determined by congenital factors. ❋ Henry Edward Crampton (N/A)

The _neuter_ or _worker-bee_, is the least of the three, and of a dark brown colour; the abdomen is conical, and composed of six distinct segments, and armed with a straight sting; it possesses a long flexible trunk, known by the name of a proboscis, and has on its two hinder legs ❋ William Augustus Munn (N/A)

The _worker-bee_ is short-lived, seldom surviving more than a year, but this is more from the toil they have to endure, though it be a labour of love, and the many risks they run upon each occasion of going out in search of food, &c., from the weather, or their numerous winged enemies. ❋ William Augustus Munn (N/A)

On the contrary, it is in such cases as that of the worker-bee that we find the warrant -- in apparent contradiction -- for our notion of the meaning of the individual, and also the key to the problem placed before us amongst ourselves by the case of inevitable spinsterhood. ❋ Unknown (1909)

Nor is this argument, as I see it and will present it, invalidated in any degree by the case of such individuals as the sterile worker-bee; any more than the argument, rightly considered, is invalidated by any instance of a worthy, valuable, happy life, eminently a success in the highest and in the lower senses, lived amongst mankind by a non-parent of either sex. ❋ Unknown (1909)

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