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Word: bugging (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...managed to combine all the negative aspects that we could think of," McCurdy said yesterday. He added that the failure to replace graduating seniors and the flu bug especially hurt the team this year...

Author: By Carl A. Esterhay, | Title: Harvard Track 20th at IC4As; Ajootian Qualifies For Nationals | 3/8/1977 | See Source »

...over new achievements, like snapshots from Mars, seems to wane with the closing words of the evening news. Sci-Tech's promises for the future, far from being welcomed as harbingers of Utopia, now seem too often to be threats. Fears that genetic tinkering might produce a Doomsday Bug, for example, bother many Americans, along with dread that the SST's sonic booms may add horrid racket to the hazards (auto fumes, fluorocarbons, strontium 90) that already burden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Science: No Longer a Sacred Cow | 3/7/1977 | See Source »

After flirting briefly with freshman crew, however, Acosta got in with the handball groupies down at the Cambridge "Y," and was once again bit by the handball bug...

Author: By Daniel Gil, | Title: Victory at Hand in Tennessee? | 2/25/1977 | See Source »

...Last fall, Chin testified in a case involving a Stratford, Conn., policeman named Joseph Berke, who was convicted of having bugged the town hall, ostensibly to aid himself in the state examination for promotion. The bugs were discovered by electricians, and at the trial Chin testified that he had sold the cop a listening device-key testimony that helped convict Berke. Investigators theorize that Chin may have been rubbed out by someone else who had been using his equipment illegally and, hearing about the Berke case, decided that the bug maker had become too talkative for comfort. Then again, almost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Death of a Wireman | 2/21/1977 | See Source »

...immunize those uninoculated against swine flu. It is to protect elderly and chronically ill people against what may be a more immediate menace, the A/Victoria flu strain, which contributed to an estimated 20,000 deaths in the U.S. last year. As some experts had feared, the A/Victoria bug returned, striking 59 elderly people in a Miami nursing home in late January; five of them have died. But no vaccine produced solely to protect against A/Victoria was on hand; all that was available had been mixed with the swine flu vaccine at the height of the swine flu scare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Off-Again, On-Again Flu Shots | 2/21/1977 | See Source »

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