Word: vermin
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...such efforts, carried on much of the time in a nightmare slum landscape filled with vermin and violence, the pay is poor. The top salary for an investigator with nine years' experience is $7,190 a year-just a little more than a city-employed laborer gets after only one year and only $1,000 more than his top client gets for no work at all. As a result, the Welfare Department is forced to hire untrained and inexperienced hands who never stay around long enough to do much good. Obviously, New York's welfare workers need improved...
...rather fight than work: the lazy lazzaroni rise to defend their ancient tradition of indolence. On Sept. 27, grim little groups break out their hidden weapons and converge on German units. A substantial enemy force is besieged in a soccer stadium. German columns rush to its relief. But the vermin of the Vomero pile barricades in their wretched alleys, volley grenades from the rooftops, take potshots from parked cars. Even the snotty-nosed scugnizzi manage to get guns and march against the Germans in infantine battalions...
...poisons man has concocted to combat his insect and rodent enemies, thallium sulfate is one of the most potent. Vermin can hardly stay away from it; they go right on nibbling baits containing the chemical until they have absorbed a fatal dose. Trouble is, children are likely to do the same, because thallium-sulfate baits are often put up in the shape of doughnuts or made of crumbled cookies. Last week, after years of tracking down victims of infantile curiosity, the A.M.A. Journal reported that nine Texas children died of proven thallium-sulfate poisoning between...
...contented tarantula. The real star of the show is Scenarist Richard Matheson, who has written three or four of the hairiest lines of the year. One of them is delivered by Lorre in a spooky cellar hung with colossal cobwebs, choked with sickly dust, and populated with rustling vermin. "Gee," he mutters to Price as he glances uneasily about the scene. "Hard place to keep clean...
Despite its dramatic failings, La Dolce Vita contains some of the most imaginative and skillful cinematography I have ever seen. The sleazy crowd of photographers that hovers around Marcello's car moves like a swarm of unspeakable vermin...