Word: swine
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...manned, keeping a very good lookout in the darkness. I could see the Italians driving about in cars, and every now & then a chap would go by with his girl friend, smoking a cigaret. I could hear the dogs barking. It was all frightfully peaceful. I felt we were swine to interrupt...
...People may have to stop sneezing around pigs: swine, too, have been getting influenza lately. The Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association says that no connection between human and pig influenza has been proved, but observes darkly that flu tends to occur in both species at the same time. As among people, flu deaths among swine have been...
...cover their carcasses. It spread to deer in the Stanislaus National Forest. For twelve months, John Mohler's patient men stalked the forest, using rifles with silencers to avoid scattering the deer, killed every member of a herd of 22,000. In the two epidemics, 280,000 cattle, swine, sheep and goats were destroyed...
...help the dirty swine again...
...time they were driven from Illinois. The flight from Nauvoo ("The city of the Lord God Jehovah King of Kings. ... In February, 1846, it was fallen-that great city") is memorable. "Acres of ice" floated in the Mississippi. "The ferries were jammed with men, women, children, horses, oxen, cows, swine, chickens, feather beds, Boston rockers, a miscellany of families and goods hastily brought together in the fear of death. The boats dumped them on the Iowa shore and turned back for other, identical freights-American refugees fleeing a city under threat from an enemy...