Word: brush
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Alabamans knew that a coon as big as Kissin' Jim couldn't stay holed up forever. What would happen next? As they waited for him to burst out of the brush, nobody seemed to know whether the voters would boo, cheer, or just gawk as though they had seen a pink giraffe...
...birth of the child from press publicity." She did not complain-Big Jim was running for governor and had promised to make her the "first lady of Alabama" afterwards. She didn't even object to his campaign methods: he traveled to the "crossroads, the branch-heads and the brush arbors" with a hillbilly band, called on it to strike up a tune called "Pucker up, Honey, Jim Folsom's Comin'," and then galumphed through crowds kissing all the women...
...newspaperman Brant has plunged into source materials that professional historians have so far made little use of. His richest pickings were longhand copies of French diplomatic correspondence in the Library of Congress. To read them, Brant had to brush up on his French, went so far as to ask former French Ambassador Bonnet to check a point for him in the French archives (Bonnet obliged). Brant's new researches haven't helped him to prove the "human qualities of mind and emotion" he claims for Madison, but they have made possible a solid job of history...
...Oppressed. In Akron, an eleven-year-old boy admitted to police that he had set fire to his schoolhouse in three places, explained that Teacher James Appleby had made him brush his teeth...
From the dusty lowlands of San Diego County, the road leads up Palomar Mountain in sharp, steep curves. Near the top the air turns cold; the dry, thorny brush of southern California yields to evergreen forests. Deer bounce across the roadway; squirrels peek from the incense cedars; through the primitive underbrush pads an occasional mountain lion. But the summit of Palomar Mountain is one of the high points of the 20th Century. For there stands the dazzling new 200-inch telescope that will peer a billion lightyears* into space-man's deepest look at the unknown universe he lives...