Word: bushes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...effects of economy, graphic in general, were even more discouraging in detail. The details were in reports of exercises curtailed, of research and weapon development squeezed down, procurement postponed and pared. New weapons, hopefully discussed, were still mostly only on drawing boards or in the head of Vannevar Bush...
Union Boss Arthur J. Glover and his boys were strictly small fry beside the railroad brotherhoods, but Art's ambition was to be a bush league John L. Lewis. He figured that he could enhance his power and show up the big boys if he beat the trainmen and conductors to a 40-hour week at full 48-hours' pay-a demand turned down by a presidential fact-finding board. Even after the Korean invasion, Art kept the strike going. The National Mediation Board asked him to end it for the good of the country, but Art refused...
CARROLL D. BUSH...
...away. And so one morning last week, 70-year-old Douglas MacArthur drove through the rain to Haneda airfield outside Tokyo. Waiting for him there was the old Bataan, revved up and ready to go to South Korea, where U.S. and South Korean forces were clawing desperately at a bush-league army of Soviet stooges...
Frightened Cardinal. Not many kinds of spider kill as elegantly as Aranea. One called Agelena makes a heavy sheet web that she spreads out on a bush or hedge, where it looks like a flimsy, dirty handkerchief. Agelena has no glue, and she must subdue her victim before he breaks loose. This involves violent battles and considerable risk every time she tackles something that can fight. But Agelena is a big spider (her body is three-quarters of an inch long), and she has an advantage which one arachnologist has neatly compared to that of a man on skis chasing...