Word: mite
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army & Navy get to Japan, the more often they encounter tsutsugamushi (Japanese for "dangerous bug fever"). It is also known as scrub typhus, is related to epidemic typhus. Service doctors expect the worst infection in Formosa, Malaya, Japan itself. The disease is carried by the larva of the red mite, Trombicula akamushi, which bites only once, but perhaps fatally-the death rate is 4% to 55%, depending on the virulence of the epidemic. To teach their colleagues about this new danger, Lieuts. (j.g.) Donald S. Farner and Chris P. Katsampes discussed it in the current U.S. Naval Medical Bulletin...
Stir Up was the horse to beat, and 7-to-1 Pensive did it. Jockey Conn McCreary, a stocky-chested mite (99 lb. on a 4 ft. 8 in. frame) told how: "I held him back until we hit the stretch, then turned him loose. That's all there...
...their infinite wisdom. . . . To Brother Busch, a baseball bat, a pencil eraser, a bad memory, who dozen boxes of aspirin, and the latest edition of Watch-Bill Drafting Made Easy. . . . Mr. Flanigan: Bottle of Kreml, giant size. . . . Mr. Wires: a new call sign. . . . to Hopf and Peachie (the Mighty Mite): free and unrestricted access to sick bay, provided they haven't taken quarters there first. . . . Elemendo Rossi: (lately hitched) a copy of Cl to occupy his off-hours and weekends. . . . To Long: our notes, assiduously compiled in radio engineering. . . . McCarthey: Recommendations for a staff billet. . . . Newnam: a calendar...
...satanic eldil with Hitleresque ambitions and had since lost touch with the rest of the solar system. Consequently hmãn had lost the virtues of the other inhabited planets - the ability of hrossa, séroni and pfifltriggi to live happily together, each contributing his special mite to the common good. Hmãn had also lost his willingness to welcome death as a beautiful redirecting of divine energy, his faculty for recognizing the "shape" of the spirit, and of distinguishing between appearance and reality. The evil spirit, concluded Oyarsa, expressed himself through the two scientists, one of whom...
Finally this military mite decided to cast his lot with platoon 4 of Company C. Giving Platoon Leader Carl King a hefty salute, he fell in with the group as they marched by on their way to be paid...