Word: bushed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Long Voyage. One day last year Wingate was summoned urgently to London. Stepping off the plane, still in his tropical bush shirt, he hurried to Downing Street, to lunch with Churchill. The Prime Minister then had a Scottish express train stopped, the astonished Mrs. Wingate* bundled off, took husband & wife aboard ship to the Quebec Conference...
Short-Order Duck. Such are U.S. scientists' short-order wonders, often telescoping into a few months developments which would normally take five years of research from idea to finished product. Perhaps the best example of how Dr. Bush's group works was its famed amphibian truck, the "Duck." The problem: to produce a 2½-ton truck (based on an amphibian jeep previously designed by OSRD) which could run on land and water and do heavy duty in beachhead operations. It was a job at which many had failed; most attempts had simply placed an ordinary truck...
...original line-up of top men is still intact. Of course, OSRD, being virtually a military secret, is also virtually invisible. But it is not completely invisible; and much of the credit for its immunity from attack has been due to OSRD's able, self-effacing boss, Vannevar Bush...
Tinkering Yankee. Lean, sharp, salty, 54-year-old Van Bush is a Yankee whose love of science began, like that of many American boys, in a passion for tinkering with gadgets. Born in Everett, Mass., near Boston, grandson of a whaler and son of a Universalist preacher, Bush feels most at home in a Cape Cod fishing boat. Possessed of insatiable curiosity and a prodigious memory, he has solid learning in the more obvious forms of literature (he quotes Kipling and Omar Khayyam by the yard), likes to read philosophy, plays the flute, loves symphonic music, has been a successful...
Like almost everybody else, Vannevar Bush thinks of himself as essentially a man of peace. He regards himself as working at a disagreeable but necessary assignment. He refuses to be drawn into discussions as to the possibilities of OSRD inventions for the peace to come. OSRD's sole job, he considers, is to shorten the war. But one thing he would like to see continued after the war-something like OSRD. Says he, hammering his desk with his fist: "If we had been on our toes in war technology ten years ago, we would probably not have had this...