Word: lice
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...warring, peace-loving Moshesh, founder of the Basuto nation, wrote to Queen Victoria in 1868: "I am glad that my people have been allowed to rest and live in the large folds of the blanket of England. My country is your blanket, O Queen, and my people are the lice...
Often PBH Committee members will find lice in the hair of a child, Cobb related. But even if he is de-loused, "when he gets home the rest of his family have lice also. We face a social problem here, not a medical problem...
...blind violinist in the corner cafe could see with his finger tips which of two identical bow ties Arturo was wearing-the red or the blue. The little boys from the orphanage "all had lice and an eye-sickness called trachoma, which looked as though their eyelids had been smeared with sausage meat." The winding alleys-Street of the Union, Street of the Clock-were lit at night, white and black, by the polished moon of Castile and by gas jets, weak flames shaped like slices of melon. In summer he saw the savage boredom of village life in Brunete...
...teaching, Professor Merk brings restrained intensity of enthusiasm that makes even British tax rates on tobacco and the conflict between European and Asiatic lice fascinating to his students. From his opening "At the last hour . . ." to the end of the period, Professor Merk is an arresting spectacle. His gold pocket watch is on the lectern immediately. At intervals he picks it up, gestures sweepingly with it in his fingers; or he stands staunchly at attention, map-pointer towering like a lance at his side, as he sums up an historical conflict in memorable words like "a struggle between brandy...
...South Kensington, that another couple had just moved in with them, and that: "It was ever so public." Better-off Britons, who see such newsreels and read about squatters, have that uneasy feeling that they had when wartime evacuations suddenly washed to the surface thousands of children with lice in their hair...