Word: bedbugs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chamber of Deputies (where he served 1924-32, 1936-39, 1946-55), during the next decade became notorious as a party hatchetman. He helped organize (1936) the International Brigade, won dubious recognition for his Spanish Civil War exploits from Novelist Ernest Hemingway: "He is crazy as a bedbug. He has a mania for shooting people...
...figures . . . His gray face had a look of decay. [It] looked as though it were modelled from the waste material you find under the claws of a very old lion . . . 'He may be a glory and all,' said a corporal . . . 'But he is crazy as a bedbug. He has a mania for shooting people...
...smart and well-disciplined plague of bedbugs has struck the University, it was reported last night. Every Sunday night for the past three weeks certain insects of an undetermined nature have been biting an inhabitant of Hastings Hall during his sleep. Although the exact species is unknown, scientists studying the bites last night stated that they had reason to believe that the attackers were of the bedbug order...
...Because of Orley Lindgren, kid. Mostly, that is. The punk is so lousy he crawls all over the picture like a bedbug. It's enough to turn your stomach. I've seen some repulsive kids in my time, but that kid cops first place in my book...
...also the 100th anniversary of the landing of the English sparrows in the U.S. Finicky ornithologists regard the immigrants as neither sparrows nor even especially English. They are weaver finches, originally from Africa, and have made a great success in life by attaching themselves, like the dog, the bedbug and the rat, to the fortunes of man. They colonized Europe long ago, swarming in its cities paved with nutritious refuse. In 1850 they reached Brooklyn...