Word: bug
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...PEDDLING BUG SPRAY AND LIBERALISM...
...Judge cartoon led to a livelihood. In it, a dragon crawls ferociously into the bed of a "mediaeval tenant" who complains, "And just after I'd sprayed the whole castle with Flit!" Flit was a bug spray, and its manufacturer, Standard Oil of New Jersey, soon hired Geisel to create an ad campaign. "Quick Henry the Flit!" became one of the best-known catch phrases from between the wars. (It lingered decades later in a cartoon, appearing in one of Harvey Kurtzman's magazines - Trump or, more likely, Help! As I recall it, a man summons his butler with...
...second-straight night Saturday, Harvard was bit by the penalty bug...
...thousands of dollars for the right to use three or four lines of their song or show a five-second clip of their television show. I’m going to assume you are not one of these artists, but it’s still essential to be proactive. Bug your advisers and professors and make them ask about acquiring additional control over their publications. Read about Creative Commons and apply it everywhere it can be applied. At best, this careful forethought will open the floodgates to a whole new wealth of freely available educational material in the very near...
...plans to spy on U.N. Security Council members opposed to the Iraq war. Then former Cabinet Minister Clare Short, who resigned in protest after the fall of Baghdad and has been a thorn in Blair's side ever since, declared on a bbc radio program that British spies had bugged the office of U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan. She said that she had read transcripts of conversations conducted there. Various politicians and commentators were predictably shocked. A Blair press conference was dominated by questions about whether this had happened and, if so, whether it was legal and/or wise. He wouldn...