Word: flea
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...wind whipped across the dry, brown plains, and a man, naked in his hole save for a flea-infested blanket, died. So too did an old woman covered with flies. A man named Abigurney, who had already lost three children, was asked how many had died in his village. "Too many for me to count," he replied...
...that time, the goal had about as much of an impact on the game's outcome as a flea stepping on an elephant's toe, and perhaps fittingly, a flock of seagulls began hovering over the Tufts half of the pitch like a bunch of vultures waiting for a wounded animal...
Despite two penalities, Quincy drove down to the Winthrop 10-yard line. A flea-flicker found McNamara in the end zone to give Quincy a six point lead that would last for the rest on the game...
...weeks from his job as an industrial water-sprinkler installer. "I wouldn't mind going to Seoul in four years." In the manner of a beloved old ballpark being stripped for demolition, disposable slabs of vermilion and magenta will soon go on sale in a gigantic flea market. The saddest figure in Los Angeles was the honored policeman who wanted to be a hero or at least to be noticed by his superiors. Officer James W. Pearson, 40, was at first credited with disarming a bomb he found in a wheel well of the Turkish team...
...Smoke Rise Elementary School in the Atlanta suburb of Stone Mountain boasts a lab with 14 Apple II computers, 13 of which were bought by the PTA. The Lafayette parent group in Washington, B.C., which raises $40,000 a year from such projects as a flea market and an international-food festival, not only supports the salaries of a nurse and two teachers but pays for science equipment and library books. At Columbia Elementary School in DeKalb County, Ga., where 40% of students receive free or reduced-price lunches, parents have managed to raise $2,000 a year...