Word: bug
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there is nothing potentially more explosive than teasing a fatalistic Red Sox fan--a hungry breed of sports fan, a bug-eyed baseball lunatic who in the summer months follows every pitch and grabs for every grain of hope with the tacit, suppressed knowledge in the back of his mind that around August, no matter how many home runs Jim Rice hits, or how awesome Yaz is out there in left--the cold hand of fate will sweep down from New York or Baltimore or Detroit and topple all the dominos...
...black bigot, a splenetic little whip of a man who bullies like a demented overseer, seldom speaks below a shriek and worships at the church of ostentation. Would you like to live next door to The Jeffersons? Or consider the character J.J. on TV's Good Times: a bug-eyed young comic of the ghetto with spasms of supercool blowing through his nervous system, a kind of ElectraGlide strut. "Dy-no-mite!" goes J.J., to convulse the audience in the way that something like "Feets, do your stuff!" got to them three decades ago. Then there is the character...
...source of the leak is not known, but TIME has learned that the problem began more than a year ago when the FBI, with federal court approval, placed a bug in a New York City office used by Anthony M. Scotto, president of the Brooklyn longshoremen's local and one of the more unusual figures on the waterfront. A graduate of Brooklyn College, he was named by the Justice Department in 1969 as an alleged captain in the Gambino crime family. Nonetheless, he has remained respectable enough to lecture on labor at Harvard and attend a White House conference...
...compared gurgled memories of How It Was the First Time. This is a fairly routine thing to discuss, I realize; in New York, Oxnard, Peru, Indiana, and bless it, Kaplan, Louisiana, hums of conversation rising from cafeteria tables like locust clouds, and if you poll each little bug, here's what he'll say: "The first time I saw Fred Astaire dance I was trans-fixed...after the first time I saw the "Seventh Seal" I couldn't win a chess game for a month...the first time I saw Abbott and Costello I nearly busted...
...authors may be right in their guess about what happened. But I think they are dead wrong about why. Nixon didn't need someone to bug O'Brien to establish a Hughes connection; Nixon knew positively that O'Brien was on Hughes' payroll. He knew it well before the Watergate burglary; so did the IRS, the Secretary of the Treasury (George Schultz), Colson and I. An IRS audit of Hughes' tax returns had disclosed the Hughes-to-O'Brien payments. A routine IRS Sensitive Case Report informed the President of O'Brien's appearance in the Hughes investigation (along with...