Word: spray
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...that all. Entomologists who went hunting in the blitzed acres found that the DDT spray had also wiped out the entire population of leaf-eating insects, black flies and mosquitoes...
...offensive was named "the potato run." Its mission: to spray the Japs' budding food supply with fuel oil, kill it before it could be used...
...Army's tragedy was that of Honan's tall, patient peasants. After years of famine, this year's crop was rich and fat, all but ready for the harvest. Just before the Japanese struck, plans had been completed to move 1,000,000 Ib. of poison spray into Honan to check the inroads of locusts. Now the plans lost meaning: what the locust spares, the Japanese will take...
Correspondents who saw the attack and later operations at Cape Gloucester and Saidor were allowed to report last week that the rockets burst in a spray of raking death and spread like burning balls, scorching large areas along the beaches. At Saidor the entire landing area was bathed in flames before the troops piled ashore. Admiring Marines promptly nicknamed the skipping, hell-raising rocket shells "Daisy Cutters...