Word: bugging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most expensive motion picture ever made. As far as most studio executives are concerned, Taylor could have an affair with Mao Tse-tung-provided she stays on the job in Rome. The trade freely predicts that 20th Century-Fox may never become 21st Century-Fox if Taylor should bug out of the film...
...takes its listeners to a "house on East 68th Street in little old New York," where Dorothy ("Sweetie") Kilgallen and Spouse Richard ("Darling") Kollmar fill the air with papier-máché sophistication, some slightly dated hep talk (Dottie still peppers her sentences with words like cat, bug and dig), and some vicious meows. Dorothy also has an inclination to be hilariously wrong. With authority and certitude, she misplaces geographical landmarks, mispronounces French words, and misnames the heroes of history. WOR listeners tune her in with something of the same impulse that makes crowds gather at a fatal accident...
...Sullivan, last year's top three men, were stricken with mono. There went Barnaby's hopes of cracking Yale's top three. Wiegand, even when he returned, seemed to run out of gas half-way through, and he dropped to number five. Then Howell quit, and Sullivan got the bug...
...leader who neither smokes, drinks (not even tea or coffee) nor swears, and who gives 10% of his annual income (which amounted to $250,000 last year) to his church. Before he announced his gubernatorial candidacy last week, he fasted for 24 hours in prayerful consideration. A physical-fitness bug, he arises each morning at 5, jogs for a mile or so in a sweatsuit or bangs golf balls around the country club adjoining his $150,000 house in Bloomfield Hills, a Detroit suburb. Because of the many irons he has in the fire, Romney has little time to spend...
...Bug Tussle's name was later changed to Flowery Mound...