The hillside homes were boarded up or abandoned and claimed by vermin and squatters, some of who had a pyromaniac bent.
One defector I interviewed a few years ago recalled the wasted bodies, covered in vermin, stacked like cordwood at train stations.
But here we have a Times columnist likening his political critics to vermin.
It said that it had been monitoring the situation since and had not seen more vermin as a result.
The floodwaters likely brought a bonanza of garbage for vermin to feast on in the underground tunnels, Leirs said.
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There was some sort of body down there, too, seething with white vermin.
Officials in the 1950s created a so-called rat patrol of exterminators ready to parachute in and stamp out migrating vermin.
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Concerns over consistency and dealing with the pressure of Test level competition, the sort of 'mental vermin' that fuel my game.
Environmental health officers in the county said water-logged fields were forcing vermin into drier towns and villages looking for food and shelter.
If lobsters are considered the vermin of the deep as early American colonists saw them then they become objects of disgust, not food fit for kings.
We could also see a rise in the population of vermin running rampant (such as rats and other sewer dwelling creatures) in the cities.
As if the presence of microscopic eight-legged vermin weren't gross enough, consider that it's not the mites that cause some people to cough and sneeze.
Other kinds of vermin such as lice and scabies can get into the mattress as well, although they are less common than mite and bedbug problems.
Incredibly, the EPA regulates such plants as pesticides and subjects them to even more stringent regulation than the deadly chemical poisons used to kill vermin, viruses or bacteria.
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Many people's bins in our street are over-flowing and following the thaw it can only be a matter of time before rats, foxes and other vermin are attracted.
In some cases, their jobs are carried over from past show-within-a-show Muppet joints, while other characters have been shunted off to an "Up Late" writers' room populated by motley talking vermin and crustaceans.
Hoarding can become dangerous when debris gets piled so high that it falls and injures someone, or when the debris serves as a breeding ground for disease-causing toxic mold or vermin.
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But a hunting ban may enthuse supporters in marginal suburban seats, where foxes can be portrayed as harmless furry animals, rather than (as the hunters have it) feral vermin that disembowel lambs.
"This stands out because it's the only fictional portrayal I could find that has much in common with the older narrative about badgers as vermin which goes back to Tudor times, " she said.
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They are frequent victims of diseases such as dengue fever, spread by mosquitoes that breed in the landfill's stagnant water, as well as respiratory ailments and infections attributable to rats, birds and other vermin.
The department specifies that animal waste must be picked up every seven days, and has rules about keeping stuff in the yard that might be a breeding ground for vermin and mosquitoes, like old tires.
Recent legislation - which is governed across the UK by the Home Office - made it an offence to possess an airgun in a public place without reasonable excuse such as vermin control near farms.
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He says his name is Vermin Supreme.
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He would build not only wealth for himself but a better life for the doctors and schoolteachers in distant provinces, still living in run-down, vermin-infested apartments and dreaming of raising their kids in solid houses, if only Russia could grow a robust mortgage industry.
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