Word: verminous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...Storch helicopter, and out stepped two young men in work clothes, followed by two well-dressed young women. In excellent English they explained that they had refused to join the Czech Communist Party and wanted refuge. The two men had worked for the Schiidlings-bekamp-fungsinstitut (Institute for Fighting Vermin), spraying plants with DDT from the copter. Instead of finishing their DDT run, they simply headed west. One of the girls had also worked for the institute, the other was just a friend. No romances, they said...
Down the centuries 42 additional acts under which private persons might bring an action and collect the fine money were passed. People who went in for this were officially called common informers.* Although branded "viperous vermin" by James I's Lord Chief Justice Sir Edward Coke, and dubbed "that legal cad" by Punch, the common informer prospered. His most fruitful law: the Sunday Observance Act of 1780. Actions against the promoters of Sunday wrestling matches have produced fines as high as $4,000. A woman collected $14,000 after suing the owners of a movie theater which...
...qualifications for membership are background, breeding and wealth, they are naturally Tory strongholds. Other Laborites enter Brooks's and White's without causing any commotion, but Bevan is anathema to British bluebloods. In a speech in 1948 he had blatantly proclaimed: "Tories are lower than vermin...
...into Armitage's business. Sir Charles thrives under the Labor government's program for organizing benevolence from WhitehallSir Charles knows his way around a bureaucracy. But Armitage feels obsolete. "All now was duty, nothing was love," Author Bentley has him reflect. "He was called vermin by a Cabinet Minister and told he did not matter a tinker's cuss...