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...Philip boasts of the quantity of "Q fever" germs that one of his favorite ticks often contains. The juice of this tick can be diluted 500 billion times and still carry the disease...
...ancients believed, says Dr. Philip, that mashed ticks were a useful aphrodisiac, and Pliny the Elder recommended tick blood as a depilatory and as a curative ointment. There may be something to this. Recent tick-workers have shown that ticks contain an antibiotic that inhibits the growth of many bacteria...
Diplomatic Dynamite. As the TV camera flicked to a map on the wall behind him, Dulles began to tick off some of the areas where Communism is on the offensive. He started with Korea, pointing out that one objective of the Communist attack there was to make easy Russian or Chinese conquest of Japan and Japan's vast industrial capacity...
...developed, one of Murder, Inc.'s "soldiers" named Albert ("Tick-Tock") Tannenbaum told Edward Heffernan. an assistant D.A., about meeting a fellow hoodlum, Emanuel ("Mendy") Weiss, in Brooklyn's Prospect Park. Tannenbaum noticed scratches on Weiss's hands and asked him how he had come by them. Weiss's story as told by Tannenbaum...
...Pythagorean tick of an English bicycle...