Word: bugging
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Last week Jockey Jack Flinchum lost his "bug." Ordinarily, there is no national to-do when an apprentice jockey loses his bug (the five-pound weight advantage allowed first-year riders, dubbed "bug" because of the asterisk that precedes the weights of bug-ridden horses on race programs). But Jockey Jack Flinchum, a baby-faced 17-year-old who looks like an angel and rides like the devil, has in the past three months become the darling of U. S. racing fans...
...other words, he was a human bug...
...that he get ready for the parade by putting on a red shirt made him look sick. When I saw how green he turned I gave up hope of marking a storm-trooper out of him. I had been looking for a hero, and I had found a bug...
Finally, with the force of an exploding bomb, the work of the bug was given to the world by the "Harvard Crimson". The newspaper offices of the "Hub" rocked with the force of the explosion, and the people of Boston learned about...
Here we see the work of a vampire, the Roman Catholic Church, which through the work of a bug, thought to destroy us. Edward Holton James Y.A.A. Leaflet...