Word: bug
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...father was largely responsible for my intereal on politics, although he did not have a preconceived design to thrust me into a political career. I suppose you could say that I was written by the bug at a very early age Between my father's activities' as a member of the St. Louis Board of Education and his position in Republican politics, I had an early introduction to politics. He took me to board meetings from the time I was eight and to the Republican convention when I was 11. Although I was young and didn't always know what...
Quick Change. The flu bug is a quick-change artist. It undergoes what scientists call antigenic alterations, or periodic transformations in biochemical makeup. As a result, vaccines developed to defend against one virus generation-usually too late to do much good-generally prove altogether powerless against the next. In addition, natural immunities acquired through exposure to one year's microbes may offer no protection against later models...
...Wankel rotors spin continuously and thus provide the proper torque to move a car's wheels directly. Rotary engines are smaller, peppier and potentially cheaper to build than conventional reciprocating models, and have only six major points of wear, v. 100 in a conventional engine. The most persistent bug, ever since Inventor Felix Wankel (pronounced Van-kel) introduced his first complete model in 1957, has been a tendency for the rotor tips to wear down too quickly. That problem apparently has been solved with modern metal-coating processes, but the rotary engine still has at least one major disadvantage...
...Verne was screaming because she saw a bug. It wasn't a roach, because La Verne isn't afraid of roaches...
...water bug. Grandmother killed the bug, and La Verne stopped screaming...