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Word: bug (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...provides a haven on those dark nights of the soul when nothing but a book will still the pain. It has the best science fiction selection around, and a lot of good and hard-to-get books on other subjects. The staff is friendly and won't bug you if you spend four hours making up your mind not to buy anything...

Author: By Elizabeth Samuels, | Title: HARVARD SQUARE | 7/3/1972 | See Source »

...Nicholas Hammond); a teeny-bopper (Susan Dey); a young wife on the verge of giving birth (Mariette Hartley); the head stewardess (Yvette Mimieux), once in love with the captain (Charlton Heston), now carrying on with the copilot (Mike Henry); and a certain Sergeant Jerome K. Weber (James Brolin), a bug-eyed benny popper who swills brandy, talks crazy and keeps clutching at a large black satchel stashed under his seat. One among these is a skyjacker. Guess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Nose Dive | 6/26/1972 | See Source »

...able to approach the landing runway from a number of different directions; under existing controls, they must all be funneled into the same approach track. Indeed, area navigation should be so efficient that Eastern Airlines Board Chairman Floyd Hall likens its introduction to converting "an old-fashioned horse-and-bug-gy country road into the equivalent of a superhighway with an almost unlimited number of express lanes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Expressways in the Sky | 5/29/1972 | See Source »

Taped in London, Who's Afraid of Opera? is aimed at that sizable majority of the world's population-especially young people-who have managed to avoid being bitten by the opera bug and to whom the prospect of an evening at the Met is highly resistible. The shows cut down two Italian comic operas to half-hour nibbles, a drastic reducing plan that is still adequate for the skinny buffo plots. Sutherland trots out for a bow and a chat with the puppets and explains the story to them ("I have a bit of money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Who's Afraid of Joan? | 4/24/1972 | See Source »

...blood!" When Robert Kennedy was assassinated, McGovern sought to keep Bobby's antiwar supporters together by entering the race in his stead less than three weeks before the 1968 convention. Though he polled only 1461 of the 2,622 delegate votes, the effort gave McGovern the presidential bug...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Success at Last for George | 4/17/1972 | See Source »

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