Word: mosquitoe
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...hunt, e.g., Memsahib nakwisha piga nyati; tia chini ya kitanda ("My wife has shot a buffalo; put it under the bed"), or Hapana taka piga simba leo. Tengeneza chandarua ya mbu na tafadhali ngoja kidogo nge ("I do not want to shoot a lion today. Fix the mosquito net and please leave the room...
...entire native village flogged for disobedience and has no qualms about flogging ("It is simple and effective and very widely understood"). He has also spent an entire year in tortuous bureaucratic negotiation to have a tribe restored to its ancestral village. He smokes incessantly, sleeps with his mosquito boots on, and has worn the same conical felt hat, begrimed with sweat and snake venom, since 1940. Peering out from its ragged brim with his satyrlike half-smile, the snake man looks rather like an ageless faun out of pagan mythology. At his death, he intends to have his body thrown...
...frame. The power plant is a sputtering, 40-h.p. engine borrowed from a motorcycle. Hovering motionless in midair, its 10-ft. rotor blades windmilling, the makeshift craft looks like an airborne Erector set. But in the hands of an experienced pilot, it can fly like a startled mosquito-straight up to 8,000 ft., forward, sideways or backward at 65 m.p.h., right down to a feather-soft landing on any convenient driveway. Last week, in a dozen U.S. cities from San Diego to Cedar Rapids, do-it-yourself helicopter kits were outselling Jaguars, and homemade choppers were buzzing peaceful country...
Died. James Leonard Hanberry, 86, the last survivor of Dr. Walter Reed's 1901 yellow-fever experiment, which proved the theory that the scourge was carried by mosquitoes and not through miasmic air; of cerebral arteriosclerosis; in Columbia, S.C. A lanky, 25-year-old U.S. Army private stationed in Cuba's Columbia Barracks, Hanberry spent 20 nights in a screened hut, sleeping in the clothing of dead yellow-fever victims without catching the disease, was moved to another isolated shack, where he was exposed to an Aedes aegypti mosquito, which bit him on the knuckles of his right...
...tribute to this involuntary ally against colonialism, the flag of Nigeria's Western Region today bears a symbolic mosquito...