Word: infestation
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...special niche in American folklore. Depending on the circumstances, he ranks midway between the riverboat cardsharp and the village idiot, part freebooting buccaneer and part plain boob; or he appears, armed with screwdriver and flashlight, as a latter-day St. George riding heroically against the dragons that infest the nation's drain traps and fuse boxes. In commuter cars, at cocktail parties and women's clubs, he is the center of a game of "Can you top this?"-an endless recital of domestic triumphs and defeats. The plumber who forgets his tools is legendary; now, says one pained...
...with all this, Poland has gained immeasureable freedom since its "self-liberation." Brzezinski says, "There are no outward signs of a police state. Slogans, banners, and flags, which were all over in Russia when I was there a year ago do not infest...
Enemy mines haphazard the roads, enemy mortars control the passes, enemy snipers infest the fields. In 15 miles the lieutenant loses two men, and when he gets to Hill 465. he finds-enemy machine-gun nests. The picture ends with a battle for a hill that probably means nothing to either side...
California's elaborate machinery for confirming a case of bubonic plague began to grind. The plague bacillus lives in fleas, which in turn infest Western ground rodents. When an epizootic occurs, the disease kills many of the rodents. In Lockwood Valley, disease detectives found the shriveled carcasses of rabbits and ground squirrels by the score. More significant, they found fleas on the ground because their animal hosts had died...
Soon after she plunged into the water for her record swim across Lake Ontario last summer, Toronto's Marilyn Bell felt a gnawing sensation at her middle. A sea lamprey, one of millions of the slimy, eellike creatures that infest the Great Lakes, had sunk its teeth through her bathing suit, and was trying to attach its bloodsucking mouth to her body. It was as bad a moment as Marilyn had in the whole 21-hour ordeal. "I struck hard at it with my hand," she said later, "and my blow knocked...