Word: lice
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Neither Traps nor Poison. Rats never wash, says Specialist Nicholes, and seem to delight in filth. They are generally smelly, covered with running sores, fleas and lice. In a pinch they will eat their own young-or other rats caught in traps. But when there is food, a rat somehow contrives to inform his friends, and shares generously. They never lay up food for emergencies, trusting their victim, man, to do it for them...
Lest they feel that he is different, he scratches and squashes imaginary lice while he talks with lice-ridden Bedouins.* Contrary to pukka British practice, he lets Arab enlisted men eat from the same dishes as their officers. In 27 years among the Arabs (ten of them in Iraq), he has become known as the Arabs' great friend...
...Lice & Rice. Abdullah's military adviser, the man on whom the British most count to keep their useful Arab ally efficient but tractable, was also in London last week-Major General* John Bagot Glubb ("Glubb Pasha"), M.C., D.S.O., Order of El-Istiqlal (Independence), Order of El-Nahdhah (Renaissance...
Then he fed all sorts of insecticides to the rabbits. Some killed the lice, but also killed the lousy rabbits. At last he found a compound (2-pivalyl-I, 3-indandione) which had no apparent effect on the rabbit, but killed all lice that took a single nip. Dose required: 2.5 milligrams (.00006 oz.) per kilogram (2.2 lbs.) of rabbit weight. One-tenth of a milligram fed daily for three weeks was deadly to lice for a month after the dosing stopped. A similar campaign against mosquitoes was not quite so effective. At Kerrville, Tex., an offensive against cattle ticks...
...ground floor flat. . . . When the spring came, they made a truly German window. Loving this lovely Germany, her son joined the SS, which bled and died that there should be camps where starved prisoners fell on the bodies of their dead comrades and, if not too disgusted by the lice, ate their kidneys and livers and the soft parts of their thighs...