Word: bugging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gets credit for coining the name of a ubiquitous computer phenomenon: the bug. In August 1945, while she and some associates were working at Harvard on an experimental machine called the Mark I, a circuit malfunctioned. A researcher using tweezers located and removed the problem: a 2-in. long moth. Hopper taped the offending insect into her logbook. Says she: "From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs...
...jail an IRS agent and an Assistant U.S. Attorney, and publicly assailed the Justice Department's local Organized Crime Strike Force for going after "little fish." When the agents went after Big Fish Claiborne, they looked into reports that he had once used a private detective to bug illegally the home of a former girlfriend, but a grand jury failed to indict the judge. "A bunch of crooks out to destroy Nevada," said Claiborne of the investigators...
...electrician from Williamsport, Pa., was no stranger to White House guards, who had observed him on the grounds and questioned him earlier that week. In court, Mahonski burst out that he had "been down to the White House to ask the President to order the FBI to take that bug out of my ear." U.S. intelligence agencies, he rambled on, had planted a "bug in my ear that transmits everything I think across the country." The President, Mahonski concluded, "had certain elements of this society fill me full of dangerous drugs . . . that take my judgment like the Communists would...
...flap this bug with gilded wings, thus painted child of dirt that stinks and stings; whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys. Yet , and beauty ne'er enjoys. --Alexander Pope, Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot...
Scarifying monsters add a dash of sci-fi glitz. They include Kronovores (creatures capable of devouring time), deadly Cybermen (decaying bodies encased in silver garb), the Yeti (a 9-ft.-tall carpet), the Anti-Matter Beast from Zeta-Minor (a bug-eyed sheet of aluminum wrap) and the Daleks, mobile robots who look like milk churns and scoot around intoning...