Word: lice
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just after noon on the second day a 20-year-old Austrian lieutenant stumbled from a cellar, surrendered the last organized remnant of Germans, exhausted, grimy, self-dubbed Kriegsverlängerer (war prolongers). From other, forgotten basements crawled pale, cadaverous, smelly, lice-ridden villagers. For weeks they had lived underground on popcorn, dried beans and water; now, amid the ruins of their homes, they cackled with hysterical relief...
...Parris Island is as good a backdrop as any for Diamond's fabulous personality. In his new job he greets recruits with a wounded-bull roar, shoves them through an assembly line of showers, haircuts, lice inspection and clothing issues at the rate of 200 an hour. He bawls countless lectures at awed recruits (and quaking second lieutenants), lectures he has learned by heart in 26 years of professional soldiering...
...been wandering in their midst. Very red were the faces of some Philadelphia doctors. For the victim, a poor 67-year-old Russian Jew, with the typical leonine face of a skin leper, has been in & out of half a dozen Philadelphia clinics, where he was treated for body lice, sinus trouble, hardening of the arteries, a broken hip. At last doctors at Presbyterian Hospital, after treating him off & on for two years, diagnosed his most important ailment. Leprosy is extremely rare-there are only about 350 cases (mostly from coastal cities) in the U.S. leprosarium in Louisiana (TIME...
...Lice Throwers" specialized in vermin. Every Saturday night they would hunt for "the biggest specimens." For twelve super-lice, the club paid one mark. On Sunday morning each member lined up for inspection holding a prize louse between finger and thumb. As the Kommandoführer marched down the ranks, members saluted smartly, thereby snapping the "live dose of itch" in his direction. After endless practice on an old overcoat, the prisoners could hit the Kommandoführer "below the belt" once in three tries...
...started down Wozenski's hill, our artillery had gone to work on the German hills. Shelling these hills was like shaking lice out of old clothes. Each pounding seemed to bring one or two Germans out to surrender. Now another prisoner walked across the lines. One of our men spoke to the prisoner in German and the prisoner answered. He said he had been two days without food or water...