Word: cockroach
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...first diphtheria antitoxin from Europe to the U. S., Dr. Warren Vaughan tells in his book about all that a layman needs or wants to know about allergy-how "sensitization" takes place, its bodily results, its myriad agents, its treatment. From kapok to camel's hair to cockroach powder to cosmetics, the list of things to which people are allergic is almost endless...
...little roaches are feasting in somebody's kitchen when the human beings surprise them and there is tragedy. The humans go away in triumph, thinking they have killed every little cockroach. But one little roach peeps out and another and another. Because cockroaches will go on forever . . . unfortunately...
...With five gardenias in her black curls, Philippa gave two free concerts in a little theatre. She rattled off classics, played some of the 63 pieces she has made up since she was four: The Goldfish, The Jolly Pig, Manhattan Silhouettes. Self-confident but not brash, Philippa explained her Cockroach Ballet...
...modern city dweller, the unfortunate Mr. Murphy, jostled in the subway, unnerved by noise, threatened with peptic ulcer, bolting his meals, quarreling with his wife, depressed by the incessant pressure of city noises great and small, bewildered at the contrast between his efficient radio and his inefficient, cockroach-breeding house...
...county jail of Amarillo, Tex., Jailer Dick Vaughn moved two men from solitary confinement cells after discovering they had trained a large cockroach to bring them cigarets from other prisoners...