Word: bushes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President of the U.S. stepped from the Columbine III into the overcast Georgia day at Augusta's Bush Field. A middle-aged housewife in a print dress nudged her companion. "My, he looks wonderful," she smiled, "but I sure do wish he'd cut that budget." The other lady, wearing a sweater and skirt despite the warmth of the day, nodded in agreement...
...suggested budget cuts (see below), Eisenhower even placated Treasury Secretary George Humphrey, the man who had tossed the first budget match. Clearly still a member of the Administration's happy family, Humphrey too headed South and, as the President's house guest, he was greeted at Bush airport by a buss from Mamie Eisenhower...
EGYPT, headlined Nasser's newspaper Al Gumhuria, and gloated: "States which contested Egypt's rights in the canal and beat around the bush and hatched plots against Egyptians have at last found themselves forced to recognize Egypt's rights in supervising its own canal." Though the U.S. continued to haggle for some kind of multilateral agreement, every ship that paid its tolls and sailed through the canal widened the breach in the dike of effective Western resistance...
During much of that time Mrs. Hubbard, who thinks Africa "don't half as dangerous as civilization," lived with the natives in the bush country, often more than 100 miles from any white settlement...
...tuned in (cracked Hayes: "The natives get restless in the basement"). The great white hunter was undaunted. "I'm going off to shoot lions tomorrow," he signed off. "I'll call you next week. Goodbye and God bless you and give my love to everyone." Adjusting his bush-jacketful of Ban and oleomargarine, he beat back into the wilds...