Word: bushing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some Congressmen, he pointed out, opposed his plans to enlarge the White House (TIME, Jan. 21). Such talk was a tempest in a teapot; if some of our good friends want to come down and protest by chaining themselves to a bush or a shrub, it will be entirely satisfactory...
Charles Cole has been married since 1928 to a pretty, witty Smith girl named Katharine Bush Salmon ("It was one of those Smith-Amherst romances"). She has some success as a writer, while he has published four books largely devoted to his specialty, French mercantile practices during the 17th Century...
...will note . . . that a young heifer . . . is being used in this test. What's more, she has a little sissy collar of flowers around her neck! And that, of course, makes it strictly junior or bush-league stuff...
...committee, to be headed by the Secretary of State, also includes Dr. Vannevar Bush, Major-General Leslle R. Groves, and John J. McCloy. Bush, President Conant, and Major-General Groves were the three men who supervised and directed the development of atomic energy during...
...Manhattan project were hundreds of creators and hundreds of others who helped make the creation possible. But all of them, by the very nature of the project, were workers in bits & pieces. Some of their names had become household words: Major General Leslie R. Groves and Dr. Vannevar Bush, the administrators; Drs. Compton and Fermi, the physicists; Drs. Urey and Lawrence, the atom crackers; and Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer, sometimes called "the smartest of the lot," who assembled the first bomb in New Mexico's desert fastness...