Word: bushing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Readers that year were flocking to buy a bucolic novel about the Scottish village of Drumtochty by Ian Maclaren and a nostalgic romance of Paris' Latin Quarter by a British illustrator named George du Maurier. Beside the Bonnie Briar Bush and Trilby became the first "bestsellers" -a new word in the language...
...Technical Sergeant William L. Brown of De Witt, Ark., it all began in New Guinea, where the 32nd Division commander badly needed a Jap prisoner to question, and promised a furlough as payment. Brown scurried off into the bush, brought back a live Jap, spent his leave in Australia and got married there...
...spluttering mad. The Post's editorial that morning, wired to him, was an attack on "the bush-league diplomats of the State Department headed by Secretary Stettinius ..." for their insistence on Argentina's admittance to the San Francisco conference...
...U.S.S. Bush, Colhoun, Halligan, H. L. Abele and Pringle. *Among the nine targets: the field at Usa, a town from which the Japanese used to export to the U.S. cheap jewelry stamped: "Made...
...Davidson, bush-bearded sculptor of celebrities, voiced high hopes for the San Francisco conference, where he will record the world's peacemakers in clay: "We're going through the labor pains of a new civilization, and the child's going to be swell...