Word: bugs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hell didn't you tell me?" demanded McNamara, as subordinates of Wheeler and Sharp looked on bug-eyed. "Why, damn it, I could have had the 8,000 logistics men that we need here today-even if I had to go out and pull them in off the street...
...change, said Mobutu, and it suddenly became clear why he wore no tunic. Pop went the button on one shirt cuff as he told the Congolese to "roll up your sleeves, strip off your ties and get to work." Pop went the button on his other cuff as his bug-eyed audience began to realize that he meant them to follow suit. "Roll 'em up," Mobutu called to the uproarious crowd. "You too!" he shouted to his assembled Cabinet ministers, who sheepishly followed orders...
With six of the nine Crimson starters hit by sickness or injuries, Harvard found itself hard pressed by a hustling Army team. Crimson captain Dinny Adams (number one), Todd Wilkinson (four), and Matt Hall (nine) were all suffering from a bug, but still managed...
...British Medical Journal, Calcutta's Dr. Sachimohan Mukerjee reports evidence that if old-fashioned cholera and El Tor bacilli are put into the same test tube or invade the same human victim, El Tor will completely crowd out the "classical" vibrios. Not only is it a tougher bug; it also spreads faster. And a recovered El Tor victim may remain a menace by continuing to excrete the bacilli for as long as six months, as against a mere three weeks after classical cholera...
...army major, Laing made an unlikely switch from arms to art. A Sandhurst graduate, he was a lieutenant in the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers for four years, resigned to enter a London art school. At first, Laing had a "hairy idea about art." He was a bug on things historical, vaguely Arthurian, and even named his daughter Yseult. One day, he saw a photographic essay on sky diving. The imagery of swooping man below the billowing, brightly colored gores of a parachute combined his interest in the contem porary heroic figure with a desire for strong formal arrangement...