Word: lice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even as the delegations were on the way to Yalta, Harry Hopkins reported to F.D.R. that Churchill "says that if we had spent ten years on research, we could not have found a worse place in the world than Yalta . . .He claims it is good for typhus and deadly lice, which thrive in those parts...
Inevitably, Rocky made his tour through a long series of reform schools and jails. He was a big shot, a guy who shared lice-ridden cells with drug addicts, crooked politicians, bookies, lunatics and gunmen. During his few periods of freedom he did a little "amateur" boxing for pocket money, but most of the time the thugs he traveled with had no use for padded gloves. A lead pipe was better...
...succeed in adding another example to the myriads afforded by the history of science of the general truth expressed so admirably by my former master. Hans Zinsser." And then he went on to quote the colorful professor at the Medical School who wrote in the 1920's "Rats, Lice and History...
...mother with her flock of chickens,'' he recalls, "caring for setting hens, making coops from store boxes for the cluck and her little brood when the chicks were hatched, seeing that they were fed and watered and that their heads were greased to kill the head lice when they appeared. At times, I assisted my mother in her efforts to remove tapeworms from their throats by the use of a hair from the tail of a horse. I might add that this last effort was not always successful. Occasionally, the patient died...
...whiles hee sits pyght and pritty on a woodan tubbe ycovred in hors hyde, and doth preetende to make the onslaught-slishe! slashe!-a-straking o' the air on's Sworde, and a-brasting of's cheekes wi' greate shoutes wold fright, I trow, the Lice offe Launcelot...