Word: bug
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...porches a family sat as if for a portrait, children in parents' laps. But they all had bug-eyes twisted slightly toward the sides of their heads. They seemed unaware of this: The kids had thick glasses, and the smallest girl had light blue pixie glasses with sparkles in them. Behind the glasses her tremendous eyes seemed miles away.--Beside them in the duplex lived a lone man who watched television and gestured angrily at the government with the stump...
Harvard, however, was not in top health for the game, and the flu bug took its toll Saturday night. Kevin Burke missed the contest altogether and was replaced by Wiz Wyatt skating on the fourth line. Both Goodenow and Levy Byrd left the infirmary to play in the game and had plans to return there yesterday...
With the jury out of the courtroom, Sirica dismissed as "ridiculous, frankly" the claim by McCord's attorney, Gerald Alch, that McCord had helped bug the Democrats in hopes of detecting plans of radicals for acts of violence against Republicans during the campaign. If McCord really believed that, Sirica suggested, he should have called police, the FBI or the Secret Service. Well, could McCord's defense be based on the claim that he had no criminal intent? "You may argue it," Sirica told Alch. "Whether the jury will believe you is another story...
...people in Washington are more uncomfortable these days than House Speaker Carl Bert Albert, the "Little Giant" from Bug Tussle, Okla. It is he who set in motion the proceedings that could lead to the impeachment of Richard Nixon. It is he who stands next in line of succession to the presidency until Congress confirms House Minority Leader Gerald R. Ford as Vice President. For many politicians, those would be heady circumstances, but Albert relishes neither role. He wants Ford to be confirmed "as quickly as possible," and he fervently hopes, "for the country's sake," that Nixon will...
Albert at 65 has no desire for higher office. Born in an unpainted shack in McAlester, Okla., he was raised in nearby Bug Tussle (later renamed Flowery Mound), after his father abandoned coal mining to become a tenant farmer. As a student in a one-room schoolhouse, Albert developed a love of reading (chiefly history and biography). He used his $1,500 winnings as a champion high school orator to continue his education at the University of Oklahoma, where he graduated with a Phi Beta Kappa key and a Rhodes scholarship...