Word: qui
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Malaria "has been reduced to one-fourth its incidence in the early part of the war so that the overall death rate from malaria in the Army is .01%. . . . Atabrine has been found more effective . . . than qui nine." Most effective preventive: mosquito eradication by the wonder insecticide D.D.T...
...supporter and confidante to whom Ubico undoubtedly looked for comfort was a remarkable woman named Julita Quiñones. Officially, she is at the head of a Government bureau in charge of meals and supplies for public schools. Actually, she wields power in scale with her bulk (Guatemalans swear that she is 6 ft. 7 in. tall...
Giustizia mosse il mio alto Fattore; fecemi la divina Potestate, la somma Sapienza e il primo Amore. . . . Lasciate ogni speranza qui voi ch'en-trate...
Finally an Italian-American soldier shouted: "Veni qui." A figure then crept from the pillbox on all fours, ran down the hill, screaming and sobbing. He was seized, searched, left behind. That particular unit had met its first Italian in Sicily...
...British War Office released some information last week which had given it an acute case of the shakes. Recently two members of the British Security Police dressed themselves up in German uniforms and started out in broad British daylight to see whether Britain was on the qui vive. Bareheaded, without overcoats, one in the blue of a Luftwaffe officer, the other in German infantry grey, they first took a pleasant bus ride from London to Gerrard's Cross 17 miles away. They talked socially with their fellow passengers in guttural, Germanic English. One passenger thought they were Russians, others...