Word: bugging
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Young college football fans from other areas around the country may have the impression that Nebraska football started around that time, a considerable miscalculation. Football at Nebraska goes back to 1890, when the team was known variously as the Old Gold Knights, the Antelopes or the Bug-eaters. This last unfortunate appellation stuck, as to the grille and windshield of passing automobiles, until around 1900 a Lincoln sportswriter decided Bugeaters was not a proper nickname for the players and began to refer to them as Cornhuskers. Coach Jumbo Stiehm's teams, vintage 1911-15, alternately called the Cornhuskers...
...bug in a Kansas City restaurant recorded DeLuna bragging that he had ordered Glick to sell his interest in the Stardust and Fremont in April 1978. Glick did so. A new corporation took control in 1979, headed by Allan Sachs and Herbert Tobman, who were cleared of Mob connections by the Nevada gaming commission. But FBI affidavits claim that the skimming has continued and charge that Tobman and Sachs are "figureheads" for the Chicago...
Richard Scifeddine '87 recalled a four-inch-long cockroach he found in the closet of one Yard room. Despite a thorough dousing with various industrial-strength chemicals, the bug scurried away into a crevice...
...some New England, Southern and California communities, planes and spray trucks are now dousing large areas with malathion (which has largely replaced banned DDT). But many scientists are skeptical about the chemical's effectiveness, just as they are about such gadgetry as electronic bug zappers. The main impact, says Entomologist John Edman of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, is psychological: "It reassures people something is being done...
What interferes with the paintings is a tendency to caricature rather than draw every shape right through. There are too many bug eyes, cartoony ears and fragmentary evocations of Felix the Cat. But at the same time, Alexander's torrent of images corresponds to a real need, which, on the whole, his formal system can handle. But when his indignation is at full blast-as in The Art King, a mordant quotation from Bosch, showing a startled windbag of a culture hero being devoured, crown and all, by a leopard-he is plainly an original, though not necessarily...