Word: bugging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hundred percenters? They weren't hit by a bullet or a shell fragment. Instead they . . . were hit by a bug who took up living quarters in their lungs, making them 100% disability cases. Or they contracted heart ailments, arthritis...
...bug of nineteenth century Americana has bitten Twentieth Century Fox, but the result is no "Oklahoma!'.' nor even a "Meet Me In St. Louis." For despite its many virtues, including Jerome Kern's last songs and Jeanne Crain, "Centennial Summer" is anchored to mediocrity by its script and by lack of imagination in its whole production...
...straight matches without dropping a set. Betz won the Wimbledon Singles crown, a glory at least equal to the U.S. championship. In Paris three weeks later, Osborne handed Betz one of her few beatings. The Betz Club romped up to Sweden, and played barelegged before 88-year-old tennis bug King Gustav. Then the other club members returned to the U.S., but Pauline headed for a Swiss resort (Gunten) to celebrate her 27th birthday with Millionheiress Barbara Hutton. They swam, jitterbugged and went mountain-climbing for ten days-Pauline's longest vacation from tennis in ten years...
Husky Oliver Lafayette Parks, onetime crack Chevrolet salesman, got the flying bug in 1926. He took ten hours of flight instruction, started his own school the next year at St. Louis Municipal Airport with himself as the entire faculty. A few weeks later he cracked up, lost his left eye and ended his flying instructor's career...
...trucks and dusty cattle cars, the rubber troops began their trek. Some turned out to be vagrants and rogues who brawled and thieved. Foreign-Legion-like, these seldom asked each others' names, got along with boondock handles like Negrao (Big Nigger), Bexiginha (Pock Face), and Bichhv ho (Little Bug). When Brazilian rubber officials let them go unfed, the men broke away and foraged for themselves. Soon they were met at stopping-places by town police, who threw them into stockades until the journey continued...