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Word: bugs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Young Jezebel. She likes to run around her Manhattan hotel suite or "Windows," her twelve-room house in Bedford Village, N.Y., with no clothes on, and has to be prompted by friends when callers arrive. She also enjoys the bug-eyed shock on the faces of strangers when she pretends to be a dope fiend. (She sprays her temperamental throat with a doctor's prescription that includes cocaine.) Once, for the benefit of a visiting innocent, she took a Benzedrine pill (a drug she uses regularly), mashed it on wax paper with a rolling pin and asked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: One-Woman Show | 11/22/1948 | See Source »

Entomologist James Augustus Hyslop was once, and for many years, a valiant insect fighter. Back in 1908, Hyslop en listed in the bug-fighting army of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. He poisoned grasshoppers, battled boll weevils, spied out numberless insects with a view to their undoing. Finally, as boss of the Insect Pest Survey and Information, he and his minions slew bugs by the billions. But as he got to know the enemy, a change came over Hyslop : he began to see things from the insect's point of view...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Spokesman for the Enemy | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

...does not judge insects by their works; he loves them for themselves. With downright affection, he recalls attractive insects he has known. There is the strong-jawed "short-circuit beetle," for instance, that gnaws into lead cables. There are insects that live in crude petroleum. There is a clever bug (Dermatobia hominis, an invader from South America) that catches flies, lays its eggs on the flies' legs, then releases them unhurt to carry the larvae to man (where they burrow under the human skin). As Hyslop talks, bugs by the thousand that he has known and loved creep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Spokesman for the Enemy | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

...nice snug hold." Instead, he would tell him to work the half in 50 seconds?and he meant neither one second more nor one second less. Eddie learned to have a clock in his head." In New Orleans in 1933?the year Brokers Tip won the Derby?a "bug boy"* named Arcaro began to get into print. He was top rider at the meeting, with 43 wins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cover: Man on a Horse | 5/17/1948 | See Source »

...theater bug has aroused five groups to production activities, with plays written by men from Sophocles to Sartre...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Everyone Tries to Get into the Act' | 3/9/1948 | See Source »

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