Word: peste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Clean Sweep. In Littleton, Colo., police nabbed Pest Exterminator Edward Meier after he answered a call from Store Owner Rudolph Lemcke, efficiently cleared the premises of all mice and cockroaches, plus $700 in cash...
...them. And fatally, there is the story of Private Maggio, Prew's friend, who is beaten to death in the "stockade" by Fatso, the brutal captain of the guard, and of Prew's tragic revenge. Dec. 7, 1941, for all its horror, breaks like a pest bomb over this roach pit of human misery...
Bartok: Dance Suite (London Philharmonic conducted by Georg Sold; London). Composed 30 years ago to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the union of Buda and Pest, this six-part piece is full of earthy spirit. It is played expertly and enthusiastically...
...Bailey wanted more. His first attempt to get compulsory health insurance failed because students balked at Stillman's lack of facilities for contagious cases. During the 19th century the only place a man with measles could go was a dank "pest-house" on Soldiers Field. After this went out of business, people with communicable diseases had to pay the exhorbitant prices of local hospitals or endanger their dorm-mates by staying in their rooms...
From the Agriculture Department last week came an alarming note. The pink bollworm, "the most threatening insect pest of American cotton," is doing more damage "to the 1952 cotton crop . . . than its total damage in the last 35 years." Jolted by the news, cotton traders in New York and elsewhere began buying heavily, quickly pushed cotton futures up as much as $2.50 a bale. But when newsmen tried to get some more facts on the crop damage a few hours later, faces at the Agriculture Department were as pink as a bollworm. There are no figures, said Agriculture officials...