Word: buggings
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...order of Henry Ford, who regarded them as admirable curios -with their antiquated typography and illustrations-to send to his friends. Beula & Co. found the old readers to be just the ticket: McGuffey gives a firm phonetic grounding and follows up with stories that bug a child's eyes out. Kids can read of a Cruel Boy who pulled the legs from flies, a Kind Boy who freed his caged bird, a Tease who frightened a playmate into insanity. The books excerpt Shakespeare, Byron, Scott and Whittier; McGuffey's great characters are Napoleon, Louis XVI. Lafayette and Washington...
...intercontinental missile, which was exploding so regularly that birdmen joked wryly about "the Snark-infested waters off Cape Canaveral." Time and again, Air Force procurement officers threatened to cancel the Snark if it failed just once more, and to scrap the F89 if it turned up just one more bug...
...earthier speech in fiction and drama. According to Merriam-Webster, even ain't is "used orally in most parts of the U.S. by many cultivated speakers." Nor could the editors fail to dig cool cats who make stacked chicks flip. Without drips and pads and junkies, who bug victims for bread to buy horse for a fix, the dictionary of 1961 would not be finalized...
...world stewing over H-bomb developments ; Berlin gate crashers newsworthy; Castro trigger-happy again; Carla making history; and TIME [Sept. 15] comes up with a literary bug for a cover story. Zooey...
Hacking along Los Angeles' Bel Air Country Club course with a foursome that included Actor Randolph Scott, Lawyer Richard Nixon, 48, watched bug-eyed as his five-iron shot on the 155-yard third hole plopped home for a hole in one. "This," exulted the former Vice President, "is the greatest thrill of my life-even better than being elected...