Word: bug
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reporter from the Washing ton Post discovered a microphone concealed in the bushes behind one park bench, with the wires leading to a tiny park-maintenance station 30 yards away. No one ever figured out what that primitive bug was intended to hear, and everyone, from the FBI down, denied having installed...
...precise and wholly cooperative Butterfield became the Ervin committee's first mystery witness. He arrived without an attorney, not having had time even to obtain counsel to accompany him. Speaking in understated, undramatic terms, he told a sensational story of how Nixon had made it a practice to bug all presidential conversations. At no time, so far as he knew, Butterfield said, did Nixon seek to cut off the system or were his visitors or callers informed that their words were being taped...
...smackin' drawl, as "walkin' pneumonia." Often, as Dr. David J. Sencer of the U.S. Center for Disease Control pointed out, it is no worse than a bad cold or a touch of flu. But for some victims, especially those over 50, the bug that hospitalized President Nixon last week is a misery-making, debilitating illness. Victims can be reassured by the fact that viral pneumonia proves fatal in less than 1% of cases...
...Brattle St.), open 24 hours a day, lives up to the sort of soul healing power its title implies. It has the best science fiction around, and a lot of hard-to-get books on the most far out of subjects. To top it all the staff won't bug you if you spend four hours in there one early morning making up your mind not to buy anything...
...will go to any and all meetings on the CRA so I know what's going on," Councillor Alfred E. Velucci promises. "I'll even bug a few offices if I have...