Word: snaked
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After the interrogation, the nervous pilot gave details. When he got out of his aircraft a tiny snake had struck at him, sunk its fangs into his boot so deeply that it had to be shaken off and killed. The Axis airmen whom he had fought had worried...
Members of this snake patrol, who set out to collect venom for serum-making for the South African Institute of Medical Research, are Corporals F. Walsey and M. J. Clemence and Private L. L. Lear. In the past 15 months they have captured close to a thousand of Africa's deadliest snakes...
...milker grasps the snake firmly behind the jaws to open them, presses its fangs over the edge of a small measuring glass and massages its head gently. The venom dribbles out reluctantly. The snakes don't like it - as many as 40 a month die from this handling - and the snake hunters must keep patrolling constantly for replace ments...
...South African Institute, which processes the dried venom received from snake catchers, produces antivenin, has sent off thousands of doses all over the world. (Puff-adder venom is also used as a coagulant in hemophilia.) A quick injection of serum has saved the life of many a soldier bitten by ugly horned vipers in the West African desert, bush-masters in Central America, kraits and king cobras on the Burma front and mambas in South Africa...
...Serpents have been strictly barred from barracks in New Delhi since two enlisted men wound up a large evening by buying a snake charmer's cobra, taking it home...