Word: lascar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Kala-azar is found in the Mediterranean basin, in India (where it got its name, meaning black disease), China and Brazil. Prewar cases in the U.S. were mostly Lascar seamen or visitors from the Orient. Then scores of U.S. servicemen caught the disease. Many cases may still be lurking in veterans' bloodstreams as "undiagnosed fever." U.S. doctors have been alerted against...
...housecleaning was in progress; she even purged three elevator men. In recent weeks, Communist big shots have toppled into jail like so many drunks on Saturday night; Ana has had to transform two theaters into prisons. Among those arrested: beautiful Florica Bagdasar, Minister of Public Health; General Michael Lascar of Pauker's own Tudor Vladimirescu division; General Constantin Ionescu, chief of the General Staff; Constantin Doncea, deputy mayor of Bucharest, colonel in the Red army, member of the Communist Central Committee, and Pauker's old comrade. Said she: "Doncea fell into petty bourgeois habits ... I advise all Communists...
This week a Nazi bomber swooped down on the British India passenger steamer Domala, packed with Lascar refugees who had been interned in Germany, dropped three bombs squarely on her decks. With the bomber circling overhead and (so said the survivors) spitting machine gun bullets, passengers and sailors who had not been killed by the bombs began dropping into the water, many to drown. Dutch and British freighters rescued 189 of the 295 aboard the Domala, which was later towed to port. The 106 who died made up the war's second largest noncombatant casualty list (Athenia, 112, Simon...
Brady and I were taken aboard a comparatively empty lifeboat which, even so, was overladen. I didn't realize how cold I was until I tried to talk and found that my jaws were stiff. There were a. number of Lascar seamen on board; they crouched on the bottom of the boat paralysed with cold and fear. Poor devils, they longed for the sun of Bengal; it wasn't their war anyway...