Word: bugs
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Bermudians went bug-eyed last week at the extent of U. S. defense plans for their island. Not in Great Sound, the harbor of Hamilton, but at the opposite end of the island group were the chief projected U. S. bases: for the Army a plane base on Long Bird Island, for the Navy a seaplane base, naval base and garrison area on St. David's Island, the use of several small islands near by for ammunition storage. From there it can spot a hostile fleet advancing against any North Atlantic port...
Grandmother knew stories about the Old French War too, in which Maine men made British officers' eyes bug by capturing impregnable Louisburg. In the American Revolution, Benedict Arnold led Maine men through the blinding blizzards to attack Quebec. With him went two of Kenneth Roberts' great-great-grandfathers. And there was the persecution of the Tories by the rebels...
...each program. When one of McKay's men goes way off in his score, McKay writes or phones to inquire whether a hangover or domestic trouble has got him down. Almost invariably the man admits one difficulty or the other. To McKay each error is known as a "bug...
Students toiling through the steaming heat of the University of North Carolina's arboreal campus last week looked bug-eyed at an odd contingent of incoming summer-schoolers. The newcomers were 233 men and women, working bankers from Virginia and North & South Carolina, come to attend the fourth annual session of the North Carolina Bankers Conference...
...left hand the lever that controls the lift of the motor by varying the pitch of the blades. Mechanics (who had held the helicopter with ropes while Designer Sikorsky learned to fly it) backed away. He pulled back the pitch control lever. Into the air jumped Sikorsky's bug. Fifteen to 20 feet off the ground it came to a stop, hung there. Sikorsky moved the control stick forward, and down the field for about 200 ft. flew the helicopter. It stopped in the air, backed up a few feet, stopped again. Sikorsky looked over the side, chose...