Word: bushes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Waldo Peirce has always been as much noted for his shady whiskers as for his sunny paintings. Last week the balance between bush and brush was temporarily destroyed. Woolly old Waldo emerged from behind his beard, and the Farnsworth Museum in Rockland, Me. staged a big retrospective show...
...Brazil last week. Sao Paulo's skyscrapers shook to political singing commercials. Sandwichmen stalked the streets on stilts scattering handbills. Placards adorned nearly every lamppost in the land. Office seekers barnstormed the backlands in chartered planes; at least two lost their lives trying to fly in & out of bush-country airfields...
...thing . . . The bloodshot eyes . . . glared down at him from a height twice his own . . . Yes, it was the gigantic bear-the one he had killed but a moment ago. He had forgotten his own precepts about approaching bears until they were dead. And his rifle stood against a bush two steps behind, ineffective and unreachable...
...infantry outfits to join the United Nations' South Korean fighting forces went ashore at Pusan last week. They were the 1st Battalion of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders and the 1st Battalion of the Middlesex (London) Regiment, both British army regulars. The Argylls wore tam o'shanters, bush tunics, jungle-green shorts. Only the regimental pipers wore the traditional kilt, which in World War I earned for the Scots the nickname "Ladies from Hell...
...patriotic songs sprouting along Tin Pan Alley was a brash tune in march tempo called The Red We Want Is the Red We've Got in the Old Red, White and Blue. Dashed off in ten minutes last May by Bickley (Stop Beating 'Round the Mulberry Bush) Reichner and British Songwriter Jimmy Kennedy,* it had been around almost all summer before Band Leader Ralph Flanagan persuaded RCA Victor to let him record a mile-a-minute dance version. Last week, after being on the market only a fortnight, it had already sold 200,000 copies, promised...