Word: roach
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...jewelers ("Evenings of wonder, these evenings of betrothal time"), and Croupier Joe Heeney, who had learned to hate race horses ("he had long since passed the point where he called a horse a goat; he had even passed beetle ; he was now referring to the animal as a roach...
...William E. Roach, Radford, Va.: "Ignorance is one of the greatest sins of the church. . . . Many of our ministers are 100 years behind the times. . . . They are preaching a personalized sort of righteousness which is ... not Christianity...
Strong you ng men were scarce anywhere in Owosso, Mich., and painfully so at the W. R. Roach Canning Co. plant. Buxom Kitty Marie Case, 20, and thin, swarthy, 18-year-old Shirley Jean Druce, who worked there, fretted about it almost as much as did the management. Then a labor gang of German prisoners from the nearby Owosso prison camp arrived under MP guard. The manpower shortage was met-but there were ugly complications. Last week, in the Bay City (Mich.) Federal Court, the Misses Case and Druce were convicted of conspiracy to defraud the Government by aiding...
Colonel Crowe's fondness for what he calls his "Baptist Cocktail" has made him also feared by his friends. His recipe: "Go into the kitchen, get a tall glass, and put into it everything you can reach without taking more than three steps." If there is any roach powder, ant paste or canned heat within three steps, Jim is likely to mix a spot or two with the gin, brandy, whiskey and tabasco sauce. But he apparently thrives on such concoctions. At San Diego a doctor told him: "Colonel, you owe your life to a strong constitution and good...
...bedbug is harder to poison. Unlike the roach, it is an epicure: it feeds on human blood. A loathsome, wingless insect, it is light brown and flat before feeding, swells up and turns mahogany afterward. Chief difficulty in fighting bedbugs : housewives hate to admit their presence. Though the common bedbug hurts little except family pride, a relative known as the "kissing bug" transmits Chagas' disease (a deadly parasitic disease originating in Brazil) to human beings. A Lethane spray is the most effective bedbug poison...