Word: pest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...supposed to have shot a Union soldier who invaded her parents' house in Martinsburg, W. Va. She claimed to have supplied Stonewall Jackson with information that led to a victory at Front Royal. She was a nurse, a courier, a smuggler of currency and, the reader suspects, a pest to both sides. Her several imprisonments were presumably more the result of impudence than real danger to the Union. After the war, she toured the lecture circuit as "the Rebel spy," giving dramatic readings of her "perilous" experiences. In 1900, still lecturing, Belle Boyd died and was buried in Wisconsin...
...battleground for sales in 1968 is going to be in the intermediate field." Lincoln-Mercury is betting on its Montego line, of which two models resemble the popular Cougar. General Motors is also pushing the intermediates, featuring minor changes suggested by success of the 1966 Toronado. The 1968 Tem pest, for example, has an abbreviated rear and an elongated front, giving it the look of a chunky road racer. For its own sporty look, Buick has taken its Skylark and gone back to a sweeping, chrome-lined silhouette that became popular ten years...
...answered a magazine ad that promised to make me a magician and also 'The Life of the Party.' " Not to mention the death of the household. He worked for hours every day at card tricks in front of the mirror. His mother says he was a pest: "He was always at your elbow with a trick." To this day, reports his sister Catherine...
...fast as the new core units were rested in place, plumbers and electricians began connecting them up to the existing water mains and electrical inlets. Meanwhile, carpenters installed new living-room and bedroom wall panels and ceilings, adjustable aluminum window frames and plastic-coated flooring. As a final touch, pest-control men went through the building to exterminate any left-over rodents and roaches, while roofers closed up the hole through which the core units had been lowered. Seven minutes before the 48-hour target deadline was reached, the whistle blew and the job was done...
...India, Ghana, Algeria and half a dozen other governments and U.N. agencies. Moreover, he is a Cabinet adviser to his longtime friend and neighbor, Harold Wilson. He has engineered many of the tough tax programs and convoluted controls in Britain-where Budapest-born Balogh is widely known as "Pest...