Word: bugging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This is a de luxe anthology written by bookworms for bookworms. The only wolf calls in its pages rise when a bug-eyed bibliomaniac spots an unescorted Gutenberg Bible or First Folio Shakespeare. With the knowingness of a convention of beekeepers discussing the nuptial flight of the queen, 40-odd bibliophiles talk about the designing, the collecting, the stealing and the forging of books. Some of the highlights...
...entire Dutch nation was to be herded east to Poland and settled along the Bug and Vistula rivers, as punishment for its pro-Allied attitude. All Dutch real estate and capital goods would be forfeited to the Reich and distributed among deserving SS men, who would then establish an "SS Province Holland...
...committee room, marble-pillared and hung with crystal chandeliers, sat a group of bored Senators. Some studied the lofty ceiling, some doodled, some blinked at the witnesses who were still parading before them after four long weeks. Every once in a while, like snapping turtles at sight of a bug, they stretched out their necks to snap and gobble...
...time son Melvin went to Princeton, the travel bug had ruined him for normal life. Once, in the middle of a lecture, he took a desperate flying leap out of an open window, landed safely on a ladder that he had known was there, and clambered joyfully down-only to find Princeton President Woodrow Wilson awaiting him at the bottom. "Was the lecture very boring, Mr. Hall?" asked Wilson. "Very, sir." The president gave him a friendly smile, and walked...
...fact, the quote which you ascribed to me is exactly the opposite of the comments which I made to a number of reporters, any one of whom, I believe, can testify that I stated substantially this: "This is one fellow whom the presidential and vice presidential bug has not bitten. We've got too much work on our hands in 1947 and 1948 in the Congress itself to dawdle in speculation about the presidency." As Chairman of the [Senate] Judiciary Committee and member of the Foreign Relations Committee, my ambition is to fulfill these responsibilities to the best...