Word: lice
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...have overlooked the fact that it is also deadly against the honey bee. . . . According to tests made at Michigan State College it has been found effective against flies, mosquitoes, ants, berry moths, leaf hoppers, thrips, and even rose chafers, but they have also found it ineffective against aphids, plant lice, Mexican bean beetle, and it just makes cockroaches drunk...
...including the sergeants, are fed up and on top of it rain, dirt and mud up to our ankles. . . . And the lice. We all wonder how we will ever get out of this hell. We begin to doubt in God. What must we human beings suffer...
...Clothing dusted with it is safe from lice for a month, even after eight launderings...
Last summer 35% of Tito's men had typhus, said Dr. Nikolic. So he declared war on lice, and two months ago the rate had dropped to less than 1%. But disease, as in all wars, still kills more than enemy bullets...
From time to time live lice in a linen bag were dipped into the tin: if they lived, logs were added to the fire. Later, bread ovens and even rooms, heated from outside, were used for the same purpose. To prevent clothes from catching fire, paper slips were used as indicators: if they toasted black the temperature was too high; if yellow, just right...