Word: lice
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...eastern Turkish village of Lice, a single, slender minaret rose above the dust-clogged rubble. From the stony ridges above the village ran huge, pale, vertical scars gouged out by boulders dislodged during the earthquake that devastated Lice (pronounced lee-juh) earlier this month. Seismologists say the quake measured 6.8 on the Richter scale, just below the "severe" level in scientific terms (TIME cover, Sept...
...inhabitants of Lice measured their loss in the simpler terms of death, injury and destruction. More than 1,000 corpses were uncovered last week, and several hundred more may be found before the gruesome search is completed. Necmettin Esenter, a municipal clerk who lost eight members of his family, held out his bloody hands and wept: "I dug out my two-year-old daughter Vedia from under a rock with these hands...
...death toll was not limited to Lice. Landslides and other side effects that were set off by the earthquake killed at least another 1,000 in dozens of nearby hillside villages. An estimated 30,000 inhabitants of this remote southeastern farm region have been left homeless, and about 3,000 injuries have been reported...
Whores and Lice. At her simplest level, the Keneally Joan can be very simple indeed-obstinate but rather dull with the protuberant brown eyes of a cow: "Looking at her, you nearly went to sleep." She is an object of manipulation. The knights wave her like a banner to win battles. The "fat clergy" cash in those victories as new ecclesiastical revenue. The Dauphin, of course, uses her to gain his crown. Keneally graphically savors the irony of this visionary innocent ("our little he-nun") ending up in the midst of disemboweled and headless corpses, moving from battlefield to bloody...
...Raymond Vanderhook, Indiana's director of communicable-disease control, issued forthright prescriptions: "Put your head in water at 128°-130° Fahrenheit. This will kill both nits and lice in three minutes. Or use a hair dryer so the heat is strong enough to cause a tingling of the scalp for five minutes." For victims who prefer not to cook their brains there are over-the-counter shampoos that may help and a highly effective prescription emulsion called Kwell. When classes resume, school nurses will examine the heads of all the pupils and allow only those with...