Word: bushing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nominate Dr. Vannevar Bush as Man of the Year for that reason...
...corral fence and scramble for cover had been tempting. The nation was aching for an excuse to quit worrying about being blown up en masse. Both the President and the Army demanded immediate passage. So did an impressive knot of scientists-OSRD's Dr. Vannevar Bush, Harvard's President, Dr. James Bryant Conant and the Manhattan Project's Major General Leslie R. Groves...
...DEVIL IN THE BUSH - Matthew Head - Simon & Schuster ($2). On Hooper Taliaferro's military mission into the Congo he stumbles across a marvelously carved ceremonial knife, two beautiful women and an evil old man. Un fortunately, this fine, assorted bag of jungle specimens includes one moth-eaten item: a thin, conventional plot of seduction and murder that has been used inumpteen whodunits with less glamorous settings. Verdict: fair...
What did "out of control" mean? There were many possibilities. Dr. Vannevar Bush, head of the Office of Scientific Research and Development, described some: "I certainly . . . want to see rigid federal control of what is done in this area [atomic research]. I certainly do not wish to think that some group of [atomic] experimenters might set up a laboratory half a mile from my home and family and . . . poison the neighborhood, or possibly blow it up. . . .I say we are faced with a very difficult thing to control . . . and I would make a very strong commission to do it." Bush...
...turned out, the players themselves -many of them fugitives from the minor leagues-showed neither ability nor ambition to finish it off in a hurry. They made bush-league mistakes in the field (in a single game three pop flies were allowed to fall for safe hits), swooned in the face of first-rate pitching, and did nothing more invigorating than tilt their eyebrows at umpires' decisions...