Word: bugging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...test this theory, Canadian Biologist William F. Baldwin chose one of the world's least attractive creatures: a sharp-beaked "kissing bug" (Rhodinus prolixits], a tiny (½ in. long) brown resident of South America that lives on blood and sometimes sucks at human lips. Dr. Baldwin, a radiation specialist at Atomic Energy of Canada's remote biology laboratory in Chalk River, Ont., went to work on the bug because it signals visually when its cells are dividing: they divide only when Rhodinus needs to grow a new coat. This process occurs after the bug is newly gorged with...
Rump Session. At the White House somebody goofed twice in a row on forgetting to invite the Democrats' House Majority Leader John McCormack to two presidential briefings held for congressional leaders. House Minority Leader Charlie Halleck put a bug in the President's ear. Promptly, Ike invited McCormack for a full hour's presidential question-and-answer session...
...Bug Brush, a four-year-old filly, outran favored C. W. ("Big Smitty") Smith's Hillsdale in the stretch, set a world record of 1:46 2/5 for a mile and a furlong, to win the $58,100 San Antonio Handicap at California's Santa Anita...
...staff tearfully quoted (in Italian) the lines sung by Madame Butterfly before she commits harakiri. Author Schlesinger also manages a certain amount of humor in describing the great rush of theorists to Washington, including the Agricultural Department lawyer who. on a field trip. saw his first lightning bug and cried: "Good God! What's that...
...hill sporting the widest of aha-the-voters smirks. Soon learning that momentum cannot be legislated, he reached for the brake, found none, in desperation napped a leg gingerly over the side. That slowed the racer, but a senatorial foot was bent under a wheel, and over went the bug, Keef and all. Shaken by his joy ride, the Senator checked in later at Bethesda (Md.) Naval Hospital, where the medics plastered a cast around badly sprained ligaments, a dislocated kneecap. Obvious upshot: no racer for young David...