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Cassida is a large genus of tortoise beetles in the subfamily Cassidinae. Several species of Cassida are important agricultural pests, in particular C. vittata and C. nebulosa on sugar beet and spinach. The thistle tortoise beetle (Cassida rubiginosa) has been used as a biological control agent against Canada thistle.
Usage examples of "cassida".
Those on the tight-contract side were the Friendly worlds of Harmony and Association, Newton, Cassida and Venus, and the big new world of Ceta under Tau Ceti.
It was true that Earth, unlike Newton, Cassida, Ceta and some of the others, was proud of the fact that it had never needed to trade off its university graduates in blocks for people with the special trainings of the younger worlds.
But less than six months later she quietly entered her contract for sale to Cassida and was shipped off to a job on that world.
It was his bad luck that this should happen just at that moment when Cassida was raising its levies for sale to New Earth in the present campaign to put down the North Par-titioh rebels.
In that corner of my mind which before this had concerned itself with spendables, there was now a void-and rushing in to fill that void, it seemed, through the long flight from Kultis to Cassida, were memories.
A poorer, smaller planetary counterpart of Newton, with whom it shared a double-sun system, Cassida lacked the other world's academic link with and consequently the rarefied supply of scientific and mathematical minds that had made the earlier-settled world of Newton a rich one.
Because then, on the way to Cassida when I most needed that anesthesia of liquor, I had not been able to use it.
You see"-I drank again, and emptied the glass-"my younger sister went out on contract as an accountant to Cassida five years before that, and she'd married him.
But he stood low on one of the competitive examinations at a time when Cassida owed a contractual balance of troops to New Earth.
Until we had half a dozen fragments of human types-the warnor on the Dorsal, the philosopher on the Exotic worlds, the hard scientist on Newton, Cassida and Venus, and so forth.
In that corner of my mind which before this had concerned itself with spendables, • 148 * SOLDIER, ASK NOT • there was now a void—and rushing in to fill that void, it seemed, through the long flight from Kultis to Cassida, were memories.
A poorer, smaller planetary counterpart of Newton, with whom it shared a double-sun system, Cassida lacked the other world's academic link with and 149 • Gordon R.
Dickson went out on contract as an accountant to Cassida five years before that, and she'd married him.
Dickson nor on the Dorsal, the philosopher on the Exotic worlds, the hard scientist on Newton, Cassida and Venus, and so forth.
These drifted down, attacked by the smaller craft, while the majority of the assault ships from Newton and Cassida began to disappear like blown-out candles as they sought safety in a phase shift that would place them light-years from the scene of battle.