Word: mosquitoe
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...spraying of mosquito breeding areas slashed the incidence of malaria in Italy and other Mediterranean lands and made inroads against the disease on the Indian subcontinent...
...coyotes [con men] approached me. They knew who was trying to cross the border and could see right through your pocket and tell how much money you had. They offered to get me to Chicago, but I had heard that these people can rob you as quick as a mosquito can bite you, so I said no. One night, a campesino from Zacatecas climbed under the fence with me, and we ran and walked and hid for three hours, with our hearts beating like drums. But we walked right into la migra [the border patrol], and the next...
...about the sere 20-acre graveyard four miles outside town. On all sides lie ripening rice fields, surrounded in turn by the orchards that make this the Peach Bowl of America. In the distance rises 2,117-foot Sutter Buttes, which passes for a mountain range in this sunbaked, mosquito-plagued tableland some 40 miles north of Sacramento...
...where life and problems are simpler. He lives in a thatch-roofed hut, shaded by tall palm trees, at the edge of a white beach. It is one large room with lift-up frond shutters that invite the gentle sea breeze. In addition to a large bed festooned with mosquito netting, the room contains a refrigerator and gas-fed stove. In the back, separated by a wall, is a flush toilet and shower. The place is comfortable but fairly primitive, very much a man's digs...
...embassy. Among other things, U.S. surveillance gear has allegedly been used for a project called Gamma Guppy that has tried to eavesdrop on conversations conducted by members of the Soviet Politburo in their limousines. The State Department refused to comment on the compromise, but officials said wire-mesh guards ("mosquito screens" that deflect 90% of the microwaves) have been installed across embassy windows...