Word: bugging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bug Bites Deep. Voluble as can be when arguing whether a bird is a Bohemian or a cedar waxwing, birders become strangely inarticulate when pressed to explain their sport. They have no simple motto like the Everest climbers' "Because it is there." They usually mumble something about liking birds since childhood, or about the thrill of hunting without its element of cruelty, or just the great outdoors. Whatever its origin, the birding bug bites deep. Wives picture themselves dolefully as "birding widows." A golfer trying to wave his ball into the cup for an eagle at the 18th hole...
...little time. The record connoisseur knows better. He finds it is his duty to discuss the merits and demerits of any record ever made, from Aaronovich's fluffed trill in Op. O to Zzinzer's fallow tempos in Op. Posth. He predates the much-publicized hi-fi bug (who specializes in woofers, super-tweeters and push-pull amplifier circuits), but not until now has anyone tried to organize the record connoisseur's guerrilla war and set down some basic strategy...
Walt was in his teens and back in Chicago, where his father had bought a jam factory, when he got the camera bug and bought a $70 movie camera on the installment plan. Girls, he recalls, were a nuisance. "I was normal," he says, "but girls bored me. They still do. Their interests are just different." Besides, Walt was busy. After school he worked as a gateman on the Wilson Avenue elevated line, got a Christmas job in the local post office. During summer vacations he worked as a candy butcher on the Katy Railroad...
...bug, v. Bewilder or irritate...
...father of Parliaments") and mayor (1903-12) of Tokyo, Internationalist Ozaki sent a thank-you gift of 2,000 trees in 1909 in gratitude for U.S. mediation efforts in the Russo-Japanese War. When an insect-conscious U.S. Agriculture Department burned them, he patiently sent another 3,000 bug-free trees, which still bloom yearly in the capital. A fragile man with a sensitive face, Ozaki was popular enough to be able to defy the Japanese war machine, from his seat in the Diet denounced Nipponese militarism even at the height of Japan's World War II successes...