Word: bugging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other German-made regular cars were on display. They finally came to a halt and milled around in the pavilion where midget-auto makers, some of them motorcycle manufacturers, were showing a half-dozen new models added to the score they brought out last year. Among the new bug-sized eye-catchers...
Arkansas, part delta and part mountain, part magnolia and part moonshine, where a horse is a "critter" and a heifer is a "cow brute," is given to such place names as Loafer's Glory, Bug Tussle, Hell for Sartain, Hog Scald, Nellie's Apron-and, perhaps most remote of them all, Greasy Creek in the Ozark forests of the northwest, where Orval Faubus was born 47 years ago in a candlelighted cabin...
...Allied Industrial Workers. Who put up the money for office rent and expenses? Dio. Who became the local's business manager? Dio. Zakman began to feel put upon: Racketeer Dio was padding the local's payroll with his own boys, among them an organizer named Benny ("The Bug") Ross...
...stutional right, I 'cline to answer on grounds o' 'crimination." Woebegone, egg-bald Sam Zakman provided a sharply etched picture of a disillusioned Communist and displaced labor-racket boy. Zakman also provided the rare commodity of humor in describing Union Organizer Benny ("The Bug") Ross: "There's a fellow who did everything wrong, but he organized better than all of them. He would just walk into a shop and pull the switch and say, 'O.K., everybody out. The place is on strike,' and they would all run out and sign up." There...
...European models are running around U.S. streets, such as West Germany's three-wheeled Heinkels and Messerschmitts, which needle through traffic like grown-up scooters, can be parked head-on to the curb in only a 5-ft.-wide space. One of the bestselling of the gnatty new bug cars is Bavarian Motor Works' pyramid-shaped Isetta 300 (price: $1,048 and up), which has moved into more than 2,500 American garages this year. The Isetta has two widely spaced front wheels and two narrowly spaced rear wheels, speeds up to 62 m.p.h...