Word: swatters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tempestuous man. He was often inexcusably vicious in his writings (he wrote, for instance, that one princely foe was a "fainthearted wretch and fearful sissy" who should "do nothing but stand like a eunuch, that is, a harem guard, in a fool's cap with a fly swatter"). Yet he was kindly in person and so generous to the needy that his wife despaired of balancing the household budget. When the plague struck Wittenberg and others fled, he stayed behind to minister to the dying. He was a powerful spiritual author, yet his words on other occasions were...
...there then any hope of victory in the age-old battle against mosquitoes? Probably not, most scientists agree. If the biting really gets bad, the only recourse is to retreat, swatter in hand behind a fine-meshed screen door...