Word: cockroach
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Bugs in the Belfry Sirs: The cockroach that invaded The Bronx (TIME, Aug. 2) not only flies and is fond of beer, but is equally fond of rayon, insulation from wires and the goo from radio resistors...
...Shame on you to flaunt a cockroach before a Navy couple who dream of home in New Jersey, and cleanliness. Don't you know the Southern variety would sneer at your tiny Powers model...
Back in the safer precincts of his native Manhattan, Customer McDermott told friends he had been attacked by a flying cockroach, two inches long, with scaly brown wings and hairy legs. They scoffed. "All right, so it didn't fly," said brooding Mike McDermott. "Then it sure jumped a hell of a long ways...
Would "the big cockroach" be la cucaracha grande? If it would, it'd be a dandy name for some of the hotels I've stayed in in my time...
...Lessons. These men learned lessons which will help beat the Japs. They learned the difficulties of dive-bombing destroyers, which are as hard to catch in the open sea as a cockroach on a kitchen floor. They learned the most advantageous level to begin dives into ack-ack. They learned the best way to deal with Zeros. Some squadrons boast of the number of lives they have given for their country. But Kirn's men are proud of how much they did with so little loss. The lessons learned by Kirn's men will be of service...