Word: bugging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communist press reported that he was a thief, a blackmailer, a spy, etc. This time, the Russian Government charged Alexeev with embezzlement and treason, demanded that the U.S. Government turn him over for trial in Russia. This concern led observers to conclude that Fugitive Alexeev was a somewhat bigger bug than he himself had admitted, and that his comments on Soviet life and notables might prove interesting...
Malaria's cause is known: a tiny animalcule injected by a mosquito's sting. But no one knows what makes the disease so hard to cure permanently. Parasitologists think it is because the malaria bug knows how to hide: even when the bloodstream has been cleared by an antimalarial drug, the organism may remain in body tissues, lying low for new attacks. If scientists could grow the parasite in a test tube and find out exactly what makes it tick, they would be well along toward wiping out malaria...
...functions needed for a specific problem. Also introduced into the sequence on each problem are orders to check the results at various stages of each operation. And should a mechanical fault or even some faults in the statement of the problem appear, the machine will stop computing until the "bug" has been corrected...
...million men. (The Americans chafed noisily at demobilization delays, and returned horrified by the scarcity of water closets and breakfast foods beyond the oceans; the Russians returned discontented at the remembrance of fine houses, fabulous watches, and women with soft hands across the Oder, the Danube and the Bug...
...practice which the death of Dr. Edward G. Huber last July left vacant, held, just prior to his Rockefeller post, a deputy directorship of health in the European office of UNRRA. Snyder, to occupy a chair of Public Health Bacteriology, is noted in medical circles for his typhus-fever bug field investigations, which have carried him into remote corners of Mexico and Spain. Most recently he served the United States Army Typhus Commission on special assignments in the Middle East and Italy...