Word: pest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Soothsayer Characky, a Monessen (Pa.) moving picture operator and a baseball manager's perennial pest, had made too many false forecasts in years gone...
...Territories. The complaint: in figuring Michigan's area the Bureau had overlooked 39,960 square miles of Lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie and St. Clair that lie within the State's borders. Bombarded by Osborn letters, wires, facts & figures, the Bureau finally gave in to its distinguished pest. Result: Michigan went up from 22nd to eighth place among the States, became "the biggest State east of the Mississippi River...
...official Soviet news agency Tass, Hungarian Minister Dr. Joseph Kristoffy called on Assistant Commissar for Foreign Affairs Vladimir Potemkin and formally denied "tendentious rumors" that the recent Italian-Hungarian talks in Venice were "directed against the Soviet Union." Since these "rumors" had originated in Hungarian official circles in Buda pest, the incident showed that Hungary too was frightened by the crisis...