Word: vermin
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Girl Who Lost Everything, with Lloyds of London for $56,000 (covering most everything except "loss through vermin"), tossed the book to his secretary for typing, took off on a fishing trip...
...Angus Wilson, 39, does most of his digging in mildewing sections of the British middle class. In The Wrong Set, a batch of 13 craftsmanlike stories, he unearthed a nest of hypocrites, perverts and bores. In his first novel. Hemlock and After, he lifts a rock from more human vermin...
...first look at the people whose country he is fighting to save. "The filthiest pigs sty is a palace to the filthy houses in this dirty stinking City [Lisbon] ... In the middle of the day the sunny sides of the streets swarms with men and women picking the vermin from their bodies, and it is no uncommon sight to see two respectively [sic] dressed persons meet and do a friendly office for each other by picking a few crawlers from each others persons...
...basically, this form which Moravia brought to perfection in his first two books, is carried out in "Two Adolescents" where a dilerious boy imagines his room and bed crawling with filth and vermin. The reality of his early works is missing and the book becomes a more confusion of philosophies and a jumble of imageries...
...another, the toll among U.S. troops has been held down to 25 deaths among 187 proved cases (there may have been almost 500 cases, all told, with many unidentified). The medics hope that their hunters and trappers will bring in samples of the responsible virus in the rabbits and vermin, and in the mites which infest them. After that, work can begin on developing a protective vaccine. Meanwhile, to front-line troops the season's first bitter cold was almost welcome: it appeared that nighttime freezes were checking the fever's spread...