Word: bushed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Burning Bush. By the time he reached the Senate in 1948, after a run-off primary that he won by a bitterly disputed margin of 87 votes out of 988,295 cast, Johnson had polished his political talents to a high gloss. He was Democratic whip in two years, minority leader in four. When the G.O.P. lost both houses of Congress in the 1954 midterm election, he became, at 46, the youngest majority leader ever...
...most influential Democrat in the nation, stood second in power only to President Eisenhower. According to one of the gags current during that time, a Senate page asked a door attendant, "Have you seen Senator Johnson?" The reply: "I haven't seen anything but a burning bush...
...business. A graduate of Syracuse University ('36) and Harvard Law School ('39), he went to work for a top New York law firm, moved off to Washington in 1942 as a Lend-Lease Administration lawyer, soon switched over to be chief counsel to Dr. Vannevar Bush's Office of Scientific Research and Development, which was then working on the atomic bomb. He spent a postwar year as special assistant to James Forrestal, then Secretary of the Navy, and in 1947 went to Merck as general attorney. In that capacity he was instrumental in getting his old boss...
Connor has never been modest about his talents or about his ambitions. In 1955, when Bush was scouting for a new company president, he asked 30 top Merck executives whom they would like to see in the job. Most picked Connor, and when Connor himself was asked, he said: "I should be the new president." Connor was only...
...band of Simbas lay in ambush along the road leading into Poko, a small missionary town in the rebel re doubt of the upper Congo. Through "the jungle telephone," an advancing column of white mercenaries learned of the trap, cut through the bush and entered the town from the rear. As their skirmish line entered Poko, the whites were surprised to see the Simbas rush toward them jubilantly, their right arms raised in the rebel salute and shouting the rebel yell of "Mai Mulele!" It did not take the mercenaries long to realize that the Simbas took them for Russians...