Word: bug
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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John Quirk also caught the mysterious virus harriersus and is a question mark for the race. Sophomores Freddie Linsk and Jere Hines also have the bug. Linsk is recovering while Hines is suffering from a mild case...
...used to battle the bug by dousing forests with DDT. While the persistent pesticide killed the gypsy moth, it also wiped out beneficial insects and harmed birds. As a result, DDT had lost so much favor that when the moth population exploded last year, the bugs went mainly unsprayed. They denuded almost 1,000,000 acres of trees and laid billions of eggs for an even worse infestation this year...
...heights of La Paz, Bolivia, where "we killed ourselves to win a $600 watch, blood streaming down our faces and the balls zooming everywhere." In Khartoum he and three other pros played for a share of $1,000 in a match that ended with a "bug curfew" -a descending swarm of angry insects. He tells of matches on makeshift courts that were a yard too wide, of volleying on a blocked-off street in downtown St. Louis to let people know "that we were alive and playing," and of the art of lobbing shots through the rafters of bandbox arenas...
...sort out, using up in the process more pencil sharpeners than pencils." Nabokov described his success at beating the biblical quota of 70 years as "a feat of lucky endurance, of paradoxically detached will power, of good work and good wine, of healthy concentration on a rare bug or a rhythmic phrase. Another thing that might have been of some help is the fact that I am subject to the embarrassing qualms of superstition: a number, a dream, a coincidence can affect me obsessively-though not in the sense of absurd fears but as fabulous, and on the whole rather...
...uphold Judge Keith's ruling in the White Panther case and make it the law in the Sixth Circuit (Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio and Michigan). More important, if the decision is upheld by the Supreme Court, the Justice Department will have to get warrants in order to bug suspected domestic subversives. Since it apparently has not done so up until now, it would not be able to prosecute on the basis of any wiretap evidence it may now have...