Word: miceli
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...into a shiny American monster and flew off into the east. It was a jung yao (glorious) day for him. Shanghai was the most wondrous place he had ever seen. Above all, the Japs he had fled and followed for three long years were surrendering as meekly as meadow mice. It was like a dream...
...City plant was built in the earlier days of the war, when laboratory mice for the processing of tropical-disease serum were desperately scarce in the U.S. Government joined forces with industrv-which in this case turned out to be professional mouse breeders Frederic G. Carnochan and C. N. Wentworth Cumming. They already had a plant at New City. With Government aid, production zoomed from some 5,000 to 15,000 mice a week (price: 25? a mouse). Old. blue-blooded European strains, in danger of war extermination, were crated, bedded down on peanut shells, and flown to New City...
...Muscovite demimonde." She endured with patience Menshikov's orgiastic embraces and downed her vodka with his roistering friends, glass for glass, without losing a shred of dignity. She could sit placidly through wild banquets where the big joke of the evening might be a string of boiled mice slyly hidden in the cabbage soup, a trick that made some of the revelers vomit on the floor-"which capped the joke though it made things slightly unsanitary for the guests who would later fall on the floor...
...Forest. Mexico's Alfonso Garcia Robles averred that the right of any one of the Big Five to veto Security Council action created "a system of order in the forest which will keep the mice in order, but not the lions...
...First known on Broadway as a musicomedy dancer, last seen there as a dramatic actress in Of Mice and Men (1937). Not to be confused with Congresswoman-Playwright Clare Boothe Luce...