Word: bugging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heavy beard for a shave. Meanwhile, some 600 University of Texas students rallied in protest against the choice of McCarthy "to speak for Texans" at the state's hallowed San Jacinto Day celebration on April 21. In Manhattan this week, the Senator, recovering from laryngitis and a virus bug, got back in voice to describe the nation's Red peril to Francis Cardinal Spellman, who, with about 6,000 New York City cops, roundly applauded McCarthy at a communion breakfast. "You said it, Joe!" shouted the cops. "Keep giving it to them...
...Army is having trouble with its medium (48½-ton) M-47 tank, turned out by General Motors. The bug is a defective transmission screw in 6,450 M-47 and M48 tanks. On rough terrain, it drops loose and damages the transmission. Cost of repairs and replacement: over...
That D-day on June 22, 1941 was like so many other German D-days: a complete pushover. Lying at the edge of the woods with his infantry platoon only 20 yards from the Bug River, Corporal Gnotke saw the small Russian-held village on the other side pulverized in a matter of minutes by German planes and guns. When the infantry attacked, there was no resistance, only dazed old people and the smell of burning flesh. As a newly arrived lieutenant had reflected the night before: "The Führer can work wonders...
thud, The old Deuce-Four begins to bug...
...even as that tale went its round, segregation was ending-and with it the old belief in "bug out" as an inborn Negro weakness. The Navy, under the firm hand of James Forrestal, had started integration first of all, but soon began to run aground on service traditions. The Air Force started its successful program less than a year after the Truman order, and the Marine Corps moved ahead. The Army, as Author Nichols says, was "the mule of the military team." Korea changed that; there simply were not enough white replacements, and field commanders were forced to fill...