Word: lice
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...government-sanctioned newspaper, Politika, denounced the lack of basic goods like soap and detergents. For the first time since World War II, the paper reported, the schools of Warsaw are infested by lice...
...Everyone says how great the Roman Empire is, how the people of Rome loved it because they provided aqueducts so they could be clean and not have head lice anymore," Sandburg laughs. "But I wondered what the response would have been in the outlying areas, when the Roman Empire moved in and imposed itself on little tribes...
...circus colleagues. Everywhere one looks on the lot (that is circus argot, the lot; townsfolk who come to gawk before the show are called, uncharitably, lot lice) there are people doing a dozen jobs, saying nothing else beats the life. Dennis Harvey, ringmaster, welder, electrician: "I'm more settled here than anywhere, strange as it sounds. It's like joining a family." Moira Loter, bareback rider, aerialist, jackie-of-all-trades: "I've lived in a house. You always want to go back on the road." Carlos Bautista, whose family, when not being catapulted off a teeterboard, performs, according...
...according to Israel) and keeps a close eye on her empire. She built an estimated $1 billion-a-year business from a face cream brewed up by her Hungarian uncle (who also made simple fragrances, mudpacks, a poultry lice killer, and who died broke). In the industry she has been an innovator and an astute adapter, popularizing the gift-with-purchase gimmick, scent-free "hypoallergenic" cosmetics (Clinique), and a skin-care line for men (Aramis). Along the way she was helped by her patient husband Joe Lauder, who died nearly three years ago, and especially by her elder son Leonard...
Chief Justice Warren Burger noted that 200 volunteers were searching for the child's body at the time Williams led po lice to it, and that it would have been "inevitably discovered" by lawful means without his help. That being so, wrote Burger, it "would reject logic, experience and common sense" to apply the exclusionary rule and bar the evidence. This "inevitable discovery" doctrine had been previously adopted by almost all other courts, so it was no surprise to scholars that the Supreme Court also approved...