Word: bugging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sultan had yet to be bought. With dusky guile his tribesmen pretended to welcome the Italian advance until the unknown General's column was well past Mount Mussa Ali. Then from all sides they struck. Two Italian mule caravans freighted with food and munitions were captured, according to bug-eyed native runners who reached Dessye. They said that the main Italian column, fighting in the classic hollow square formation Queen Victoria's troops used in the Sudan, managed to stand off the tribesmen with a loss of 200 native and white Italian troops. Dejected, bedraggled and burning with...
...Quite different from Ras Desta Demtu was Haile Selassie's other son-in-law, bug-eyed little Haile Selassie Gugsa. Ruler of the eastern part of Tigre Province, he is a direct descendant of that King John of Ethiopia still venerated as a saint by the Coptic Church. His great-uncle, John IV, was a sworn enemy of fierce-whiskered old Emperor Menelik who later defeated the Italians at Aduwa. Ras Gugsa's father kept up the family feud against Menelik and his grandnephew, Ethiopia's present Emperor, was on the best of terms with the Italian...
When news reached Moscow that Manchukuo troops under Japanese officers had just attacked the Soviet frontier and killed several Red Army guards, the Soviet Press jittered anew against England. Russians read bug-eyed that the Greek Republic has been friendly to Dictator Mussolini, that last week's coup to restore George II is a cunning move by the Government of his kinsman George V to alienate Greek friendship from Italy...
...enough common sense to make Japanese bankers & businessmen feel that they would not be crushed by utterly ruinous taxes to pay Japan's bills for the impractical, grandiose conquest of too much of China (TIME, July 16, 1934). Once in office Premier Okada yielded to the exhibitionist bug which bites so many Japanese. He let himself be photographed with the crazy old camera and the prim old garden plants which are his hobbies (see cut). He also posed while a dentist filled one of his teeth, again while a barber clipped his almost bald head, and even...
...There have been rumors in the cloak rooms that F. D. is going to 'Renovate' my good friend Jack Garner, to middle-aisle it later with the chinch bug of Chicago [Secretary of the Interior Ickes]. There is nothing to this rumor, my friends, because the alimony would be too high...