Word: miceli
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mallee's railroad sidings the mice scratched at the iron sides of wheat bins. The noise was like the splatter of freshly tarred gravel on a thousand auto fenders. Telephones crackled and spluttered as the hungry hordes chewed at the insulation on the wires. For the cats of Mallee it was the chance of a lifetime. But the mousers were sated. With mice by the millions in the fields and roads, the cats merely brushed the mice out of their paths...
...musine inundation of the rich, rolling wheatlands 200 miles north of Melbourne began last fortnight with no more warning than a tropical thunderstorm. Overnight, apparently from nowhere, the myriads of mice appeared. Too weak from hunger to walk, they crawled across fields and into houses, nesting in coat pockets and automobile cushions, devouring everything in sight, from kapok mattresses to sultanas on the vine. When nothing else could be found, the mice ate each other or nibbled at sleeping farmers. In desperation the farmers tied strings around the bottoms of their trousers...
...essential part of the act is to rile the umpire, and in doing so to rile the other team. This is not considered out-of-the-way in Brooklyn, where it was a custom to chant Three Blind Mice as the umpires walked on field...
...Figge experimented with mice exposed to varying amounts of cosmic radiation. He varied the cosmic ray concentration by contriving a special cage with a thin lead roof, which does not stop cosmic radiation but intensifies its effect. He injected 184 mice of a susceptible strain with a chemical that almost invariably produces cancer, put some of the mice in ordinary cages and some in the special lead-covered ones. Sure enough, the mice exposed to more intense cosmic radiation developed cancer much faster than the others. Dr. Figge's conclusion: cosmic jays, acting on body cells, may help develop...
...progress that is marked by the completion of this project, no fanfare opening, similar to that of the Computation Laboratory last month, is planned by the department; but Newman conceded that the staff might do a little elbow bending when the last electrician packs his tools and the white mice are ensconced in their modernistic quarters...