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Already 500 cases of lice-borne typhus (more serious than the flea-borne type) have been discovered in the western cities overrun by U.S. troops. The German concentration camp of 60,000 near Hanover is typhus-infected. According to a New York Times report, advancing British troops last week were giving the camp a wide berth. An infinitely greater danger is expected in Germany's heart, where as early as 1943 German doctors were battling 5,000 cases. To arrest the spread of infection, the Allies have abandoned plans to hasten released Allied prisoners to the west side...
...being set up, he flew back to the Jap task force's course, picked out the battleship as his target. A low-level run with his flying boxcar in the face of concentrated ack-ack resulted in two misses, two direct hits. But the 500-pounders were as flea bites to the armored monster, and the enemy force drove...
...show was not the Museum's most successful flea-in-the-ear. But the average visitor was bound to react to some of the exhibits, come away with an idea or two, even a few private demurrers...
...away-in August 1902, when he was 16-with a flea-bitten stock company. They gave him his first part: a 70-year-old Methodist minister in a melodrama called Jim Bludsoe...
Your omission of the last sentence seriously impairs the sense of what I said. I realize, of course, that my writing a protest to you is like a flea barking at an elephant...