Word: bugs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...boss, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance: "Hodding performs one of the most difficult tasks in Government with mastery. In Hodding's job the difference between the right word and the almost right word, as Mark Twain once said, is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug...
Some of the adventure toys are truly freaky. Woolworths has an aisle devoted to the Megabugs--Megaspider Gladiator, Scorpion Megabug and Dragonfly Megabug. They are "the combat machines of the future." They cost $8.29, but include "bug bomb, working winch and insect sound." You can manually operate the wings on Dragonfly Megabug...
...sparkle among the cast is Joshua Milton as Alfred P. Doolittle. Milton stares bug-eyed above the audience most of the time, but he cavorts and mugs with such ungainly enthusiasm and impious confidence that Santa Claus would envy him. Milton transforms the dustman into such a teddy bear you want to squeeze him and forget about his unsavory scruples...
...trip included a stop in Leningrad, one place Forman has no desire to see again. While there she contracted a serious intestinal bug which took six months to work itself out of her system. Unfortunately, that was an Olympic year, and she couldn't recover in time to prepare for the Olympic trials properly...
...issue was just an excuse. They should pick on the big institutions, not just bug on the leaf like us," Freedgood said...