Word: bugging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Need Love. One essential that Matheson confesses he cannot transmit to a pupil: the love of racing. A man has to be interested in animals as well as mathematics before he can decide what a given horse can do. Matheson himself got the bug early. At twelve he rode his grandfather's horses on scrubby "bull rings" (half-mile tracks) in Idaho and Utah. After the University of Utah and stints as a miner, a newsman and a Hollywood writer, Matheson tried a comeback as a professional rider in World...
Quaint Habit. Spike made Navy boxing his life. He taught all his midshipmen the same jabbing, skipaway style that saved Gene Tunney after Jack Dempsey flattened him for the famed long count in 1927. And he was a bug on conditioning. All Webb teams did road work before reveille; all Webb boxers developed washboard bellies. They needed them. Coach Webb had a quaint habit of slamming his fist into any abdomen within range, by way of greeting...
...rumbled revealingly: "I walked out of the caucus room a little while ago, signed autographs for 30 minutes and was assured by quite a substantial group that they are interested in my continuing public service to this country as a Senator. If I had been bitten by the political bug and really desired to enter politics and quit private life, I should say the messages and communications I have received would be most encouraging." Translated freely from the Jenkinsese, this meant that Jenkins i) has been bitten, and 2) probably will...
...bug for research, Perlman saved the road $1,000,000 a year by a scientific check on fuels and oil, e.g., he stopped changing oil in his diesels after he found that changes increased engine wear. Another $750,000 was saved by mechanizing track maintenance as far back as 1936, a step that the Central first took last year...
What a period comedy generally needs is a strong hand in the cutting shears. Surprisingly, Director Lean has succumbed too often to a temptation to stand there with his shutter hanging open and stare at a prodigious exhibition of facial calisthenics. Laughton smirks, pouts, bug-eyes, belches, quivers his wattles, sleeve-wipes his nose, and generally golliwoggs it to a degree he has not attained since The Private Life of Henry VIII...