Word: bugging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bug Killer. A floor wax that kills bugs and crawling insects but is harmless to humans was announced nationally by the Freewax Corp. of Tallahassee, Fla. Price per quart...
...Informer. In Tulsa, Bootlegger Eugene Mace fell afoul of the law when cops, investigating his stuck car horn, looked under the hood, found 1) a large bug causing a short circuit in the horn wires, 2) 16 bottles of whisky...
Shahn was (and is) a candid-camera bug, not in the least reluctant to use his photographs as painting notes. Among the people who dislike his work are esthetes who think his realistic pictures overly .sentimental and sentimentalists who dislike their grimness. Shahn energetically belabors such easy targets. "Is there nothing," he roars at the esthetes, "to weep about in this world any more? Is all our pity and anger to be reduced to a few tastefully arranged straight lines or petulant squirts from a tube held over a canvas?" To the sentimentalists he says: "All the wheels of business...
...examining the progress of leaf decay under the skeleton, botanists found how long the body had been there. Their estimate checked with that of entomologists (insect specialists). Maggotts leave eggs on their prey, and learning the age of these gave the bug men an accurate estimate of how long the young woman had been dead when found...
Mite Strange. In Toledo, Railroad Section Hand James King suddenly went berserk and was arrested as a dangerous lunatic, was released after a doctor extracted the bug that had flown into...