Word: bugging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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John Stuart Mill, an English philosopher well-known to local residents, would have looked with undisguised horror upon the clothing habits of the Harvard community. Mill, who lived sometime before the turn of the century, was a bug on personal liberty. So great an abhorrence did he have of the tyranny of the majority that he searched up and down the length of England looking for instances...
...Bug-eyed Vladimir Prochazka, who arrived in Washington as Czech Ambassador last August, got bawled out by President Truman* and vanished three months later, was reported back in Prague and in jail. Comrade Prochazka, loyal party member since 1923, seemed to be a victim of guilt by association: his brother, Jaroslav, former chief of the Czech general staff, is suspected of treason...
From the literary viewpoint, B. Traven can be identified with no trouble at all. In his novels, e.g., The Death Ship (1934), The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1935) and The Bridge in the Jungle (1938), he has written like a man with a bug in his ear, and the bug's favorite theme is the bad old days of predatory landowners and conscienceless capitalists. Any writer who follows this theme strictly is almost bound to fill his pages with the typed, dusty characters of proletarian fiction, Mr. Moneybags the Magnate, Mr. Whip the Overseer, Mr. Steel the Informer...
...Andrew W. Contratto, examining physician at Stillman, reported that a strange virus is attacking students, hospitalizing them from four to five days. This germ is similar to the influenza bug that ran rampant after the first World War, but it is much less serious. When asked whether doctors knew what caused this particular virus. Contratto remarked. "There are so many damn viruses we don't know what to do with them...
...Bug Under the Chip. At his press conference, when a reporter asked a question which might have brought a sharp reply, Truman managed to drop a homely colloquialism into his answer. Did the President have any comment on the House Judiciary subcommittee's refusal to grant immunity powers to Newbold Morris, his cleanup man? Truman replied that he thought Morris, to do a bangup job, should be able to promise cooperative key witnesses immunity from prosecution. The immunity was his own idea, he said, and there wasn't any bug under the chip (meaning concealed or secret, according...