Word: zapper
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...didn't always have a problem with killing bugs. When I was little, I was pretty cruel to insects. I slaughtered ants by the thousands. I poured salt on slugs and watched them dissolve. I thrilled at the "bzzzt" sound of my neighbors' bug zapper electrocuting scores of Japanese beetles. I saw it as sort of a competition--the people against the bugs. (The people always seemed...