Word: buggings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Cooper-Climax is the product of a small British company that grew out of a garage started in 1919 by Charles Newton Cooper in Surbiton, eleven miles southwest of London. After World War II, Cooper and his son John, an intense, black-haired designer-engineer, got the speed bug and set out to develop a small, cheap racing car powered by a motorcycle engine. Gradually the cars grew faster, but they still used largely hand-me-down engines. At one point the Coopers used a four-cylinder Coventry Climax engine originally designed to pump water for fire fighters. Rebored...
...Japanese man. But each week brings its share of lesser incidents. The children rip up school buses, delight in throwing things out of the windows. "One day," says Johnstone, "a school bus passed me belching smoke from every window. All the kids were smoking. And as I watched bug-eyed at the sight, a shower of peach pits descended...
...throw some too." Hoyt Wilhelm's "junk" is the craziest knuckle ball in baseball today. It floats up to the plate, dances tantalizingly before batters' eyes like a butterfly, then breaks sharply and unpredictably. One night last week his knuckler broke all over the place, kept the bug-eyed New York Yankees flailing futilely. For Wilhelm it was a four-hit shutout, his seventh victory of the year without a loss, and brought his earned-run average down to 1.12-best in the major leagues. At 35, well-built (6 ft., 197 Ibs.) Hoyt Wilhelm is better than...
Needed: Deodorants. Lipton describes the ectoplasmic entrance of one of his pals: "The doorbell rang again, and it was Itchy Gelden, peering in, fidgeting and scratching his crotch. 'Like I don't want to bug you man, if you're busy . . . Are we gonna blow some poetry, maybe?' . . . He shambled in, mumbling his little high-pitched murmurs, half-words, more for sound than meaning. Itchy scratched because he had no skin; he was open to the world as a turtle without a shell, sensitive to all the world's hurt and all the world...
...Chevrolet if he would stop at the plant. Bunky hurried over-and found the car in several thousand pieces. "It took me a couple of months to assemble the darn thing," he says, "but I finally got it running." THE challenge turned him into a car bug. It also made him determined to fill his father's oversized boots. A broad- shouldered (185 Ibs., 6 ft.), soft-spoken young man, Knudsen had the single-minded drive of a piston. He worked in auto plants in summer, went to Dartmouth, then to M.I.T. ('36) for his degree in engineering...