Word: mosquito
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...Russell himself described it to delighted audiences, the Longs had the judge changing and shifting "like a mosquito dodging through a barrage of Flit." Russell, the gamblers' choice, was cocky and confident...
...triumph for Earl-but only a political mosquito bite to the Kingfish. Huey went on about his frenetic business. Earl was all but forgotten...
Dyak sophistication, however, is making progress along other lines. Malayan authorities were told that the only extra equipment required would be a shirt apiece. The Dyaks had other ideas. Jabu informed the camp commandant that each Dyak would need a messkit and cup, a groundsheet, a blanket and a mosquito...
...half a century, doctors have known that infected mosquitoes spread malaria. The unsolved mystery has been: Where does the parasite that causes malaria hide out during the ten-day interval between the mosquito's bite and the appearance of the fever? An answer might cut down the world death rate from malaria, still nearly 2,000,000 victims a year...
...through the tropical lowland jungle ride Venezuela's green-uniformed soldiers of health. From their gaudy yellow trucks they dismount at the doorways of palm-thatched huts to spray walls and dark corners with DDT-guns. In two years of spraying, the malaria fighters have cleared the mosquito from 200,000 houses and all but wiped out malaria in one-third of the nation...