Word: bushing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Crop. The other main reason for the big season is that this year an unusually promising crop of new matadors have received their alternativas (have come up from the bush leagues...
...wire, survived the blast of a Jap bomb ten yards away. Then, being a Marine before he was a correspondent, Maypole went to work digging graves. He dug them all day. Next morning he recorded interviews with weary Marines resting from a night's fighting in the bush...
Through Arawe's coconut groves the Japs had cut a runway now unused and overgrown by tropical bush. Arawe's harbor served as a barge-staging point for supplies to Jap centers on New Britain's south coast. In American hands Arawe would sever one enemy line of communication, would provide a jumping-off place for the next Allied amphibious advance. Most important, it would turn an idle airstrip into a forward base against Rabaul...
...sufficiency of food and in certain cases, almost an over sufficiency of liquid refreshment. I was sincerely surprised at the abundance of talent that sprang up that evening of December 10. It was generally said that in comparison to our Hubert Hufferd that "The Voice" Sinatra is in the bush-leagues. He has not only the proper treble and volumes, but our boy has ENDURANCE. There are very few people who can stand at the "mike" and sing for a period of an hour or so without stopping for a breath...
...years. One agency alone, the Army & Navy's Office of Scientific Research and Development, is spending $100,000,000 a year on research. The scientists' job is considered so crucial that for the first time in U.S. military history a civilian scientist, OSRD's Director Vannevar Bush, now sits on the Army & Navy's war councils. The full story of Bush's scientists cannot be told until after the war. But Science at War tells a good deal...