Word: flea
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...sailors loaded two of the boats inside the van and secured the third to the roof before taking off for the regatta, leaving what resembled a flea market in their wake...
...fleas scattered over Hunan by Japanese warplanes were perhaps the world's most pampered vermin, raised by the imperial army's Epidemic Prevention and Water-Supply Unit, better known as Unit 731. Today the ruins of its headquarters, located outside the Manchurian city of Harbin, stand next to a village schoolyard. Chatter from the nearby basketball court wafts past an unpainted wooden shed with a shabby metal roof that covers 96 cement pits, each a meter square. Here, 60 years ago, Japanese doctors infected yellow rats with the plague and dropped them into flea-filled oil drums. Workers then loaded...
...guerrilla fights the war of the flea," wrote Robert Taber in his 1965 textbook on (and for) guerilla warfare. "And his military enemy suffers the dog's disadvantages: too much to defend; too small, ubiquitous, and agile an enemy to come to grips with." Not only that, the guerrillas take shelter in the civilian population, knowing that any "collateral damage" incidents will potentially alienate that civilian population from the guerrillas' enemies...
Levi's, initially caught with its pants down by the denim developments, is now making extremely limited-run jeans, mimicking those in its archive. One style, called Rose Bowl, is copied from a pair of 1933 jeans found at a Rose Bowl flea market. Another, Picket Sign, replicates a pair of '30s jeans down to the paint spatters. Some styles will have manufacturing runs of as few as 50 pairs. Both Levi's and Diesel have opened high-end specialized stores. Diesel will launder its $200 jeans free to maintain the color. New Levi's arrive every six to eight...
...that year, Moon persuaded a BMG Music Publishing executive named Margaret Mittleman to see Lord open for indie-rock stalwarts Sebadoh. Mittleman had just signed a “crazy guy,” in Lord’s words, who was playing weekly shows at a New Hampshire flea market. Although Lord was shocked by Mittleman’s audacity in signing the offbeat singer/songwriter, she was so impressed with the executive’s musical instincts that Lord signed with her as well...