Word: bedbugs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There have been failures in animal warfare, of course. The Great Bedbug...
...bedbug has long been known to carry microbes capable of causing human disease, but with advances in hygiene and improvements in pesticides the problem seemed academic for many Western countries. Now, the great increase in tourist and business travel to undersanitized parts of the world means that the bedbug has to be taken seriously once again. And not only for its infuriating bite. Dr. George J. Burton, a medical entomologist for the U.S. Public Health Service who has studied bedbugs in India and British Guiana, says in Public Health Reports that the bedbug has been accused of carrying the microbes...
...free, The home of the grasshopper, bedbug...
...realized he felt. "can be counted on one hand, and their suffering is without end. They are mirrors which reflect God's light upon us other wretches, groping in the dark." She looks at him as if he were an exotic tidbit-say, a sugar-coated bedbug...
...Stalemen of the graduate treadmill," "youngsters winded in their twenties," the typical graduate student at Harvard emerges in Cunliffe's account a tired, harassed, nervous, ineffectual, resigned, passive bedbug...