Word: pest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...skyscraper are several significant patterns that emerge from 1964's auto sales. Compact cars continued their decline, dropping to only 20.1% of the market from 29% in 1963. Their place was largely taken by the intermediates, which captured about 18% of the market. The Pontiac Tem pest, the Oldsmobile F85 and the Buick Special, all of which were upgraded from compact to intermediate in the fall of 1963, made sales gains of 72%, 41% and 26% respectively. Reinforcing this customer trading-up was a further proliferation of optional equipment, ranging from chrome-plated air cleaners to rear-seat speakers...
...last week, all of a sudden, Hoover agreed to talk over coffee cups with a group of Washington newswomen at the request of that professional presidential-press-conference pest, Sarah. McClendon. The session lasted for 2½ hours, and the enigmatic Mr. Hoover managed, if nothing else, to get a lot of things off his chest...
...enslaves smaller flies and mosquitoes by gluing its eggs to their bodies. When the slave bites a victim, the eggs hatch into larvae which bore into him. And, says Dr. Kaye, two of them might have been enough to start a general infestation of the U.S. with another painful pest...
...pride, honor and love-constantly appear in his work. This has baffled some readers dazzled by the deceptively brilliant surface texture and the sort of knowing social-insider's stylishness that will set a time period with: "Now that was the year when the squirrels were such a pest and everybody worried about cancer and homosexuality." One sentence like that and The New Yorker reader knows where he is or thinks he knows where he is-in Chicsville, U.S.A., a tightly zoned community...
Charles Julius Guiteau, 39, was known to President James A. Garfield only as a bragging pest who incessantly ailed at the White House to ask for "the Paris consulship." Guiteau, a lawyer and evangelist, described himself as an employee of "Jesus Christ & Co.," but wandering around Washington, sockless and absurd, he announced that his real mission was the salvation of unity in the Republican Party. At last he decided that God's will had ordained Garfield's death. He bought a .44-cal. revolver, tested it by firing at saplings along the Potomac, and went by the Washington...