Word: flea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...constantly talked of a comeback. At 50 he was still pitching semi-pro ball. In 1940, two years after he had become the ninth man voted into Baseball's Hall of Fame, he was discovered by a newspaperman on Manhattan's 42nd Street, working in a flea circus. Quipped Old Pete: "It's better than having 'em live...
...most serious brush with occupational disease came in 1932. Dr. Dyer was one of a team which had just about proved that U.S. endemic typhus is borne by rat fleas (instead of human body lice, as in Old World epidemic typhus). Then an infected rat flea in PHS's misnamed Hygienic Laboratory bit Dr. Dyer. That clinched it: he got a severe case of typhus. Previously he had thought of endemic typhus as a mild form of the disease. Now he said: "Where do they get that 'mild' stuff? I talked to the angels the last three...
Rough & Rudimentary. In Korea, the going was almost as rough for correspondents as it was for soldiers. Most of them took their chances with the troops, ate and slept where they could, were soon covered with mosquito and flea bites, came down with dysentery...
...doctoring, two years ago became one of the eight official restorers in Madrid's museum, the Prado. On the side, he haunted junk shops looking for castoff paintings-cleaning, patching and touching them up for resale at a tidy profit. One day in Toledo's rastro (flea market) he came across a rare find: a filthy five-by-ten-inch scrap of an old painting that looked like an authentic bit of 17th Century canvas. Jesús bought it for 15 pesetas...
Sensible Observation. This week, when the two quarterbacks squared off before an S.R.O. crowd of 24,218, the flea bit the bear and put him on the run. LeBaron sent Halfback Bruce Orvis plunging over for the first touchdown and a mighty roar shook the bowl. Then the game degenerated into a huffing & puffing contest between ill-conditioned athletes...