Word: vermin
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...hoped the ghetto had passed from the world forever," the Bishop of Southwark boomed, "but today if the position of Jews cannot be compared to that of slaves in Germany it can be compared to that of helots! We have heard Goebbels describe the Jews as vermin. It is not good for any nation to regard any human whatever as vermin. It is worse for the nation . . . than for the persons they are urged to treat this...
...Minister at Monrovia. Charles E. Mitchell, the last to hold that post, had been retired because of the prolonged lack of recognition of Liberia. As Charge d'Affaires. Mr. Hibbard had spent long days in polite palaver with Liberian kinkywigs, long nights swatting mosquitoes and tropical vermin. Finally he proposed a deal: Mr. Firestone would cut interest on his Liberian loan from 7% to 5%; Liberia would frown on the slave traffic, try to do some-thing about disease; Secretary Hull would grant diplomatic recognition and send Liberia a minister; President Barclay would accept a "foreign" (i. e. white...
...weeks ago the same thing happened on a smaller scale in Providence and neighboring communities. The troublemaker in that situation was a small baker named Deschene who left a bucket of cream puff and éclair custard in the open where vermin could...
...human epidemic until the 15th Century. In the five subsequent centuries. Professor Zinsser calculates that typhus has caused more death and misery than cholera, bubonic plague, leprosy, tuberculosis, or any other human pestilence. Therefore he rates this mass disease as Plague No. 1, born in filth and spread by vermin...
...Negro guards. Then he tried to escape. After that he put in twelve hours per day at hard labor under a broiling sun, his legs weighted with heavy irons. The other twelve hours he spent chained hand & foot in a small, solitary dungeon, wet, hot, swarming with mosquitoes and vermin. His legs and arms swelled up and his hair fell...