Word: plaguy
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...rubbing his lazy-brained colleagues the wrong way with his indefatigable insistence on freedom. The audience may color him blueblood and relish his thwarted Harvardian desire to correct Jefferson's English from "inalienable" to "unalienable." And how is Ben Franklin (Howard Da Silva) portrayed? Foxy good sense, a plaguy gout, a dash of smarmy lechery and a few jokes about electricity-that is all one needs for Franklin. And that is precisely what one gets. As for Thomas Jefferson (Ken Howard), he pines for his bride. Only her presence permits him to wield the quill of independence. For Jefferson...
Apart from Lowe's plaguy tactics. Napoleon's own skeleton court was a prickly lot. Three officers and a secretary-Marshal Bertrand, Count de Montholon, General Gourgaud, Count Las Cases-had accompanied him into exile out of mixed motives of avarice, reflected glory and-last and least-devotion. It was believed that Napoleon had 6,000,000 francs in Europe (he actually had half of that). Bertrand was perhaps the least self-seeking, but he lost status when Mme. Bertrand refused to become Napoleon's mistress. With or without the hint, Mme. de Montholon was a wily...
Food-rationed U.S. citizens last week heard mouth-watering news. A great overabundance of U.S. wildlife, largely due to the war's curtailment of hunting, was reported by the eighth North American Wildlife Conference in Denver: >Pheasants are so plaguy numerous in some western states (especially the Dakotas) that farmers call them "pests." > Hundreds of thousands of wild ducks have been saved by Coast Guard restrictions, lack of gasoline, fewer hunters. The wild duck population is thought to be the heaviest in years, is making farmers angrier by turning crop lands into "picnic grounds...
...which represents roughly the amount of sound lost when transmitted over one mile of telephone wire. For convenience the decibel and not the bel is used in U. S. researches. A quiet home registers 40 decibels. Normal loudness of human conversation is 60. Upward, toward 100, noise becomes increasingly plaguy and bothersome. Some noises, measured in decibels, which may wrack the nerves, dull the minds of New York school children...
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