Word: bug
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...office-the same suite occupied by Richard Nixon when he was a Senator-with a detector and picked up blips from beneath the floor. The floor was pounded until the blips ceased, but Bayh decided against bringing in jackhammers to tear up the concrete to retrieve the dead bug. During his years in the White House, Lyndon Johnson spiced his private conversations with such intimate disclosures about the personal and political operations of his enemies on Capitol Hill that it seemed to many that he had them under FBI surveillance...
...when defense attorneys for the Chicago 8 requested that the government reveal how much evidence it had gotten in the case by means of wiretapping. Attorney General Mitchell responded by submitting a lengthy memorandum to Judge Hoffman in which he argued that the government was entitled to bug any person intending to "attack and subvert the government by unlawful means"-without obtaining a warrant. In such cases, the need to protect the national security was of greater importance than the Fourth Amendment's general requirement that the government obtain a warrant before establishing a wiretap. Judge Hoffman accepted the Justice...
...began to get the political bug bad," DiCara reminisced. "I liked the idea of being able to go around and have people say, 'Gee, that's Larry DiCara, and he's from Dorchester, and he's a pretty nice...
...elfin face crinkled into a massive grin, through the cheering chamber. At the rostrum, Ford observed that "we are the representatives not of political parties but of the people." He praised Albert warmly and noted with mock solemnity that "until this moment, there has never been a Speaker from Bug Tussle, Oklahoma." Amid more applause, the diminutive Albert (5 ft. 4½ in.) took his place at the Speaker's desk and, in his surprisingly deep voice, declared: "We shall not look upon presidential proposals through partisan eyes; we will not oppose for the sake of opposing...
...Crimson will also have the advantage of having four or five players who could step in at eight or nine on the ladder. "A team is very vulnerable if it can't replace players who come down with the flu bug. We'll have that added strength," Barnaby said...