Word: bushes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...G.M.A. has five jeeps, seven G.M.C. six-wheeler trucks, two radios. Also under Le Huu Tu's "exclusive authority" are 5,800 militiamen equipped with very little but bush hats, about 30 old rifles per company of 120 men, and a good deal of zeal...
Conveniently tucked behind a bush next to Lamont's entrance is a book slot, a safe haven, day or night, for an errant book. Last night, a pair of students tried to push a thin book into the slot and found it clogged with books...
...account of his climb to Cockney notoriety. By dint of hanging around theater exits with an autograph album and writing very polite letters to celebrities, young Fred soon got on signature terms with everyone from Arnold Bennett to George Bernard Shaw. A few literary lions headed into the deep bush when they scented Fred on their trail. Poet John Masefield, for instance, responded to Fred's advances with a "chilly" printed card, and that "awful snob" Rudyard Kipling, trapped by Fred outside a museum, "raised his stick as I raised my hat." But for the most part Fred managed...
...agree with Winston Churchill," said Vannevar Bush, "that our possession of the bomb has been the only deterrent to Russian aggression." Dr. Bush predicted that-with faster jet planes, proximity fuses and other developments-Russia would eventually build such a defense that the U.S. would have difficulty in delivering the bomb to any primary target. He added: "When the time comes that we can't get at primary targets, we must have some other means of stopping Russian aggression." An armed force of 3,500,000 would not be enough, he said, adding: "It can't be done...
Asked if the U.S. could not similarly defend itself against an A-bomb attack, Dr. Bush said: "I don't think we have had the depth of attention given to the danger...