Word: bug
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spare as a cornstalk. His greyness of face was due to an intestinal bug which he had picked up during his most recent trip to Japan. Partly because of his own demands to be shown everything, he was sorely overworked. He had been through years of terrifying strain. Once he said he did not think he could keep it up "if the end weren't in sight." By the end he meant his date of retirement from the J.C.S.: August 1951. His deep-seated calm probably accounted for his durability...
Fortnight ago, the Soviet government sent a formal protest to Washington. U.S. flyers, said the note, were dropping Colorado beetles on East German potato fields. The Estonian republic set up a people's democratic bug watch to crush the six-legged tools of Wall Street. Czechoslovakia's Red regime piped up, six days later, and said that someone had been sprinkling potato bugs on Czech fields...
...extent that the potato bug represents a Czechoslovakian domestic problem," he wrote to the Czech Foreign Office, "it is not a matter of concern to the American Embassy, which nevertheless expresses its sympathy ... To the extent, however, that efforts have been made to connect the United States with the presence of the bug, the matter is of legitimate interest to the American Embassy, which declares that [the] allegations . . . are false and preposterous...
...Embassy ventures to suggest the inherent unsuitability of the potato bug (Doryphora decemlineata) as an instrument of national policy. The Embassy doubts whether the potato bug, even in its most voracious phase, could nibble effectively at the fabric of friendship uniting the Czechoslovakian and the American people...
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