Word: bushes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Baruch thus put his finger on the vague, wishful and widely held notion that the U.S. is steadily overtaking Russia's military head start. In effect, said Elder Statesman Baruch, the U.S. is complacently counting birds in the bush where it should be after birds in the hand. "Since the outbreak in Korea, more than roo billions have been appropriated for defense-an enormous sum. Why has it produced proportionately so little in the way of actual weapons...
Witness Baruch was ready to agree that the rearmament program must guard against "obsolescence" and strive constantly to improve weapons. But concern with this factor-the bird in the bush-seemed to him to be blotting out the need for the U.S. to build up an overwhelming stockpile of guns and ammunition. Such an arsenal, if occasion arose, could supply peoples everywhere on the long Russian border, help pin down the Soviet armies, contribute decisively to the chances for peace...
...year-old Howard E. Shuman as president, and the new literary editor of the magazine Cherwell was California's Peter S. Steffens, son of Lincoln Steffens. As for the select (16 members) Writers' Club, it had five U.S. members, including President Bynum Grten of Louisiana and Geoffrey Bush of 'Vermont, winner of the Isis short-story contest...
This is not to indicate, however, that all of the riots that have marked Harvard's history have been big. Most of them were mere bush league skirmishes, and none has been half so serious as its write-up in the nation's newspapers. If any groups have relished the disturbances more than the participants, they have been the tawny tabloids, the provincial press, or others of the hyperbole-monger...
...whole dreadful business comes to an epic climax in another fine scene in which cad Boone and bounder Peter Lawford fight it out with bullwhips, while on a crag high above them, the bush bobby stands like an ibex and dispassionately sees that justice is done...