Word: bugging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Slightly dismayed, he went back to work for Douglas Aircraft. The bug bit him again during the air battle of Britain. He went to Canada to join the R.A.F...
...years between, blond, six-foot-three Squadron Leader Chesley Gordon Peterson, D.F.C., had skipped through the Payson, Utah High School and Brigham Young University. He had learned a lot about mathematics, agriculture and dancing. After college he worked in the Douglas Aircraft factory. But with the flying bug still in him, he joined the U.S. Air Corps as a cadet. He was finally kicked out, ostensibly because he was a "bloody awful flyer," actually because he had lied about...
Communications functioned better than ever before, although the Army is still critically short of radio equipment, will be until spring. Cooperation of air force with ground troops was more effective than ever before, although the strain of battle showed up many a minor bug in the new U.S. flying equipment. The Air Forces (including several squadrons of crack Navy and Marine flyers) went into the fight with a lot of new maneuver tricks. (Example: one side got into the other side's radio channels, passed out false orders that messed up many a mission...
...Bug-eyed Larry Adler blows the mouth organ with Pierian purity, can make it sound like an oboe, fiddle, horn, wawa trumpet. Paul Draper, son of Muriel Draper and nephew of monologuist Ruth Draper, was a stuttering misfit until he learned to dance. Now Paul Draper profitably applies ballet technique and good music to tap dancing, with such warmth and intelligence that many rate him the equal or superior of Fred Astaire...
They call it all sorts of names: "jeep," "beep," "peep," "bug," "chigger."* But by any name this homeliest item in the U.S. Army's rolling stock, the 2,200-lb. midget combat car, has, after a year and a half of service, been recognized as an unexpected and unique success...