Word: flea
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...Professor Osborne Bennett ("O.B.") Hardison Jr., 37, wears scuffed shoes, drooping socks and chalk-streaked jacket, goes everywhere accompanied by a kindly dog named Poppo, and makes literature an urgent affair. O.B. revels in Joyce, turns Kant dramatic, convulses his class by acting out John Donne's poem The Flea. Hummingly in tune with the student wave length, he translates the oracle's prediction in Arcadia ("An uncouth love which Nature hateth most") as meaning that, "put bluntly, the king's youngest daughter will become a lesbian." With a lyrical voice and a surging style, he also conveys his conviction...
...trick at all for a large African grasshopper to catch and kill a mouse, and giant water bugs commonly capture and devour small snakes. Almost any beetle can lift 850 times its own weight; to do as much, a man would have to lift 62 tons. And the common flea, which measures one-tenth of an inch, can jump twelve inches, or 120 times its own length; to do as much, a man would have to jump 720 feet...
...charging rogue flea...
Harvard baseball is as unpredictable as--what? Pick your simile. As unpredictable as the spring weather? As a baseball? As a charging rogue elephant? As a charging rogue flea...
...central Italy. Even making allowances for the greater speed of the modern jet, there remains a large gap. So abundant are planes for tactical use in the South, on the other hand, that military men in Saigon maintain: "In the South we have a baseball bat to kill a flea, in the North a popgun to bring down an elephant...