Word: gnat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Like a Gnat...
Most of the distance they traveled by log canoe, moving overland when rapids and falls made the river too dangerous. Swarms of mosquitoes and jejenes ( a tiny black gnat whose bite raises large welts) harassed them all the way. The high, thick jungle along the river banks cut off the sun and every portage had to be hacked clear with machetes...
...giant American Telephone & Telegraph Co. had a gnat in its ear. Not much damage was being done, but it was annoying...
...Dieu!" he stared. "Are we not people of the world? Are we concerned with pettifogging prejudices? I marvel that you strain at such a gnat...