Word: bushed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since then he has lived the full life as pastor, radiorator, lecturer, world traveler, ardent prohibitionist, novelist and editor. Franklin Roosevelt once called him "America's Spiritual Ambassador of Good Will." Last week, at 64, vigorous, bush-browed Dan Poling slackened the pace just a little. After 24 years in office, he announced his retirement as president of the International (i.e., North American) Society of Christian Endeavor (membership: 2,000,000). But he would still keep his jobs as president of the World's Christian Endeavor Union (4,000,000 members), chaplain of the Chapel of the Four...
...silver-maned, bush-mustached old lion of a man had barely stepped out on the promenade deck when the New York press was upon him. "O.K., Dr. Schweitzer!" shouted the photographers. "Stand over there . . . now look this way-this way . . . Hey, Mr. Schweitzer, wave will-ya-with the hand, see? ... O.K., let's make him walk down the deck . . . Hey, Mr. Schweitzer...
Died. Joe Crosson, 45, veteran bush pilot, "Troubleshooter of the Arctic"; of a heart attack; in Seattle. Flying by the seat of his pants over the uncharted Northland, Crosson became famed for his mercy trips (in a 1931 diphtheria epidemic he took antitoxin to Point Barrow, repeated the feat five years later during a scarlet fever epidemic in Fairbanks...
Detroit, Michigan, George R. Berkaw, Jr. Assistant Vice-President of The Detroit Bank; Dearborn, Michigan, Tom Lilley '34, Manager, Financial Analysis Department of Ford Division, ford Mctor Co.; Houston, Texas, William S. Bush; and Indianapolis, Indiana, Edward H. Adriance of Eli Lilly...
...Better change in the back of a car or in a bush or something," an MDC man advised yesterday. "Bath houses open June...