Word: lice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years as a professional crop-duster, Pappy saw the damage that poisons can do in upsetting the balance of nature. They often kill all insects, including those that eat other insects. Heavy dusting or spraying is often followed by a plague of sapsucking plant lice (aphids), which are normally held within bounds by their natural enemies, ladybugs.* The logical answer: supply ladybugs...
...Myerson called on some rabbinical colleagues in the government to back her up, explained that soldiers were under instructions to cut only side curls infested with lice. "The rule of God is not only to let hair grow," she said. "Cleanliness is also part of the rule...
...most serious brush with occupational disease came in 1932. Dr. Dyer was one of a team which had just about proved that U.S. endemic typhus is borne by rat fleas (instead of human body lice, as in Old World epidemic typhus). Then an infected rat flea in PHS's misnamed Hygienic Laboratory bit Dr. Dyer. That clinched it: he got a severe case of typhus. Previously he had thought of endemic typhus as a mild form of the disease. Now he said: "Where do they get that 'mild' stuff? I talked to the angels the last three...
Diseases spread by ticks, lice, bed-bugs, mosquitoes, and flies will be the subject of a new course taught by Dr. Henry S. Fuller, research associate on Entomology...
...usherettes. (Occasionally the house managers show the zaniness of their U.S counterparts: when the supercolossal Battleship Potemkin was showing in Moscow the usherettes were dressed as sailors.) Moviegoers sit on unpadded wooden chairs. In the winter the little theaters have some heat, little or no fresh air, great many lice...