Word: bitten
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Premier Mussolini seems to have plunged into his Ethiopian adventure without proper preparation and perhaps with lack of knowledge of true conditions in East Africa. It looks as if he had bitten off more than he can chew...
After crossing the land of the Nham-biquaras, whose complete nudity failed to offend the hard-bitten colonel, Roosevelt, Rondon, the others and a troop of native porters and boatmen found the headwaters of the Rio da Dúvida and started down it in rough dugout canoes. The river, winding northward through precipitous canyons toward the Equator, almost beat them. There were grueling portages around roaring rapids. Fever and bloodsucking insects sapped their strength. Once, when a whirlpool caught a canoe, a porter was drowned and Kermit nearly perished. They eked out their provisions by eating monkeys, Brazil nuts...
...Heaven, studious, introspective Emperor Hirohito, distracted Palace officials rushed with tidings that the Divine Monarch's youngest brother, His Imperial Highness Prince Sumi, 19, had just been bitten by a dog. According to official announcements both dog and prince were "detailed for observation" in Narashino Military Hospital but at latest reports neither had shown signs of rabies and Prince Sumi's wound was called slight...
They caught cobras, mambas and other deadly serpents with their bare hands, were frequently bitten, but suffered no bad effect. Young Python Carnochan never was bitten, hopes never to be bitten, yet is positive he was immunized by lukago. Lukago is a black sticky medicine made from the heads of venomous snakes and the eyes, brains, tongues and other body parts of eagles, lions, owls, hyenas. In immunizing the Young Python, his Snake-Men colleagues lightly slashed his forehead, arms, back and legs, and into the gashes rubbed lukago. The treatment gave him a terrific headache...
...interesting. Katherine, the childless wife, went rushing off to meet her husband, homing from India; twins were common in his family. Arthur's wife put him on a nourishing diet, made him take unaccustomed exercise. Stephen had a horror feminae ever since an impassioned girl had bitten his ear in broad daylight in a Florentine cafe, but he nearly fell an unwilling prey to a legacy-stalking female. Hilary was too settled a spinster to change her ways...