Word: bug
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Haggard is a compulsive fisherman, ever searching for the perfect lake or stream, DeVoss was sure he had caught his man when he heard that the country singer was at Orange Lake, Fla. DeVoss was about to pack his lures when he learned that Haggard, bitten by the gambling bug, was in Reno, but would meet him in Bakersfield, Calif., for an interview. Four days of high rolling, however, proved too much for Haggard, who called off the appointment and closeted himself in his Reno hotel penthouse to sleep. When he arose, he found DeVoss encamped at his doorstep. Before...
...Texas Highways & Bi-ways. A dermatologist selected SKIN for his plate, a surgeon chose CUT UP, and a dentist picked SAY AHH. The owner of a mattress shop took SLEEP, a salvage contractor used JUNKIE, and a pharmacist chose PILL. Various Volkswagen owners have labeled their beetles LUV BUG, V-DBL-U and EL BUG. Ernest Campbell of Dallas could not resist SOUP, and Eli H. Lipton of the same city coyly selected T BAGS. Clergymen have embraced such identifications as 4 JESUS and TRY GOD. OOOOPS was the plate that one man rather cruelly chose for his accident-prone...
Mariner 10 may uncover even more secrets. The 1,108-lb., bug-shaped spacecraft will make its closest approach to Mercury on March 29-when it will come within 620 miles of the surface. Before it leaves the vicinity of Mercury, it should produce 2,000 photographs of the planet's surface and a flood of other data...
...passage of virtuoso understatement, Miss Dillard meticulously records the death of a small frog sucked dry by a giant water bug, and with eerie calm reports an afternoon she spent sitting beside a copperhead. "Evolution loves death more than it loves you and me," she quietly concludes. And as the very fecundity of this "eggy animal world" seems to hurry toward its equally profuse extinction, Miss Dillard mercilessly brings on bridge-battering floods and hemlock-bending whirlwinds. Here is not only a habitat of cruelty and "the waste of pain" but the savage and magnificent world of the Old Testament...
Amnesty should come only when the American people have insured that presidents' men will no longer bug the opposition's headquarters, burgle psychiatrists' offices, offer judges bribes, or bomb villages filled with innocent people and throw soldiers fighting for their country's liberation from helicopters. Restoring justice may be a radical and painful process, but it should start now. Friday's indictments should be only the beginning...