Word: mosquitoe
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...punch. That drink is not without merits, either. It is made of rum, and rum is made of molasses from the sorghum cane that Mississippians revere as we Kentuckians love the billowing blue-grass." He paused. "It is," he concluded, "highly palatable in emergencies and an excellent mosquito repellent at all times...
...thronged the four camps around Lake Vera in the foothills of California's Sierra Nevada had a wonderful time. They hiked through the pinewoods, splashed in the little lake, cooked and slept outdoors. Along with sunburned necks and scraped knees, most of them got a few mosquito bites. They were used to that. And after 1,500 girls had scattered to their homes, a few got sick. That was natural...
...escape route for the French. But in Hanoi nobody worried. Staff officers bought their ladies posies at the flower stalls by the glassy Petit Lac, dined sumptuously at Le Manoir or the Hotel Metropole or danced with taxi-girls at the Ritz and Paramount. At night, beneath their mosquito nets, they listened to the comfortable sound of their own artillery. Said an official spokesman: "There appears to be no reason why the besieged defenders of Nasan cannot hold out as long as planes can supply them...
...Glasgow Farragut, whose classic "Damn the torpedoes!" was uttered when he sailed through the Confederate mine fields during the battle of Mobile Bay in 1864. The picture is a Technicolored version of some of Farragut's pre-Civil War activities when he sailed in 1823 on a U.S. mosquito fleet assigned to scuttle West Indies pirate ships...
Malaria is one of man's oldest enemies, recognized by medicine men long before Hippocrates. Mosquito control has threatened its supremacy. This year, for the first time, there is solid evidence that it may soon be defeated wherever Western medicine can penetrate...