Word: bug
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most of the ill students contacted yesterday said they believe the illness is not related to food, but that it is just a highly contagious "flu bug...
McDade points out that there is still a small chance that the new bacterium may turn out to be a secondary invader rather than the disease agent itself. But for the moment, the disease sleuths think they have their bug and are now trying to fit the bacterium-which as yet does not even have a nickname-into its proper niche in the microbial world. They are also trying to answer major questions about it: How and where does it grow? How is it transmitted? (Legionnaires' disease is apparently not carried from one person to another.) One reassuring fact...
...purses since riding his first professional mount. That nag, King of Swat, was a 136-to-l long shot, and finished as the odds had him-dead last -but Cauthen has been winning ever since. He stands a good chance this year of building the most successful season a "bug boy" (apprentice) has ever known...
...before I publicly embarrass all you guys n' gals in print, it's time first to declare the co-winners of the Sports Cube Disk Frisk Treasure Chest of Prizes. They are Ed "Don't Bug Me, I've Got My Radio On" Minar of Quincy House and Wendy Anne "Put Number G-18 on, Mac" King of Cambridge. Both over-grown teenagers scored an astonishing 94 correct answers out of 105. As a result, Aronson and I are currently trying to get this Top 40 match made in heaven together...
...think this time it's going to go through. I think I'll relax, play it cool and see if they'll leave me alone. And see if they'll bug...