Word: bugged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York City's Idlewild Airport, an alert photographer spotted a dangerous stowaway: a yellow-snouted beetle, ⅝-in. long, which was crawling along the coat collar of incoming Conductor Serge Koussevitzky. Department of Agriculture inspectors hastily popped the bug into a vial of alcohol, sent it to Washington for identification. Last week the bug experts reported: it was "a formidable pest," a member of the Larinus family, which lives mainly in France and Italy, is sure death to thistles and artichokes...
...movie's awe of the Queen and her handsome surroundings proves an excellent foil for the incongruous invasion of Windsor Castle by a cockney ragamuffin (Andrew Ray), who absently spews a trail of plum pits as he wanders bug-eyed through the imposing halls and chambers. The picture also unbends enough to twit Victorian manners & morals...
When his parents went out one evening last week, leaving him alone in the family's apartment in The Bronx, 23-year-old Stanley Gordon found himself momentarily at loose ends. But Stanley, a radio bug, and an interested participant in the Atomic Age, soon found something to do. He got out his tools and hooked up a microphone, a four-watt amplifier and an eight-inch loudspeaker. Then, seized with the kind of dreamy thirst for power which causes humans to throw matches into gas tanks or shoot fat women with BB guns, he leaned over and began...
...best bunter in the business. As a shortstop, he had none of the easy, fluid grace of the Cardinals' Marty Marion, nor the rifle arm of the Red Sox's Vern Stephens. But Rizzuto learned to scoot around his short-field like a hopped-up water bug, to make throws from any position short of standing on his head. Within five years after Stengel's blunt advice, the "Scooter" had nailed down the shortstop job with the New York Yankees...
...Yankees' pitching pride, Southpaw Eddie Ford, 21, was awaiting another decision: results of his second draft physical to find out whether an intestinal bug picked up in Mexico two winters ago had gone away...