Word: bugged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Protestants, concentrated in the East, must bear the brunt of the Communist persecution. So far, much of the persecution has been indirect. It takes the form of noisy Sunday youth meetings, or local Red leaders scheduling "potato-bug Sundays," where farmers are ordered into the fields to pick bugs at exactly the time of church services. The Communists have also banned religious instruction in the schools, and snipped away at the pastors' stipends, still supplied under the law by German local governments. But their open hostility is increasing. Forty-six pastors, like the Marienkirche's Reinhold George, have...
Bizarre cases of cataplexy rounded up by Dr. Levin: ¶A man who had attacks if he tried to scare a cat away, swat a fly, squash a bug or land a fish. ¶A boxer who had his opponent on the ropes, but could not bring himself to deliver the finishing punch. ¶Tennis players who, in the middle of a volley, drop the racket and either go limp in the arm or fall down...
...knew more of the aviation business from all sides. Damon has flown planes, sold them, built them, operated them. New Hampshire-born, Damon went to Harvard ('18, cum laude) to be an astronomer. But when he learned to fly as an Army pilot, the aviation bug got him. He joined Curtiss Aeroplane, became boss of a St. Louis branch in ten years, rose to president in 1935. In the late 1930s he learned about commercial air transport by joining American Airlines as vice president in charge of operations. In World War II the War Department asked him to boss...
...native ability builds them to new oppressive high. Naturally, he gets his come-uppance, but not at Union hands. His wizened Pappy and loving step-brother help an irate citizen gun him down in the street. But note: he sent another Yankee to the Happy Bucket Shop before the bug...
...striking perspective, but best of all is his Village nightclub with deep reds, clutter of paintings, and mammoth mobiles. His costumes for the dances staged by Donald Saddler are equally imaginative, particularly in an expressive number about the sister's hunt for job's and in the adagio jitter-bug of the nightclub scene...