doodlebugs

Whereas, in fact, when the doodlebugs were actually dropping, the usual subject of complaint was the uncomfortable waiting period before they went off.

As I Please 1944

The most noticeable aspect of the doodlebugs was their sound, which was quite unlike any ordinary plane.

Professor Strange admin 2010

Please add "doodlebugs" to the list of common names. a friend of mine who grew up in Houston reports staging doodlebug races when she was a little girl.

Fly away birds, here come the isopods AYDIN 2007

Back when I was but a lass (long, long ago) I picked cotton in a cotton patch for my great uncle and aunt and the "doodlebugs" would ruin a cotton crop by I think it was eating the cotton (it might have been the leaves of the plant don't remember now) and I thought my uncle was saying I would destroy ANYTHING so thus the bad feeling about that nickname!

Discussion Forum - TuDiabetes 2010

"You've all heard about these 'doodlebugs' who go around locating oil with a divining rod, haven't you?

Flowing Gold Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913

"In 1944 the war came very close again with the arrival of Hitler's first 'victory weapon', the V1s, or 'doodlebugs'.

unknown title 2009

In south-east London during the second world war, the most terrifying moments were when the doodlebugs droned overhead and then the engine cut out.

Letters: Absolute silence 2010

It was like what doodlebugs said they did, sending out their bug to go searching underground and see what it could see.

He Don't Know Him 2010

He had no notion that he was doing what doodlebugs do, when they let their bug go out of their head and travel on its own.

He Don't Know Him 2010

But the bogged-down Britons look up more apprehensively, and the boy at the bottom shades his eyes to see whether the glare conceals a low-flying plane with a cargo of doodlebugs.

The big picture: Blackpool beach, 1948 2010