Word: bushing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...petty passport racketeer, is knocked out of the show after 20 minutes. Sydney Greenstreet briefly represents the emigre black bourse. Oldtimer S. Z. Sakall (who should consider wearing his face in a brassiere) steals scene after scene as usual, merely by wobbling his jowls. Claude Rains is a bush-league Laval...
...impossible," gloats Gold ("magazine of Canada's North") "that a very few years from now may witness the founding of a great metropolis in the bush of Atikokan, where great smelters will belch smoke and flame into the northern sky, and a river of iron will flow into the industrial channels of Canada and perhaps all over the world...
...strolling alongside a high, dense cactus hedge when my attention was drawn to a bird [female cuckoo] flying up from behind over my head and settling on the ground about 25 paces beyond me. I ran up to within about ten paces, screened from her sight by a bush, and then saw she was sitting quietly on a small mound, back to me and quite motionless. Presently I saw her put her head down and her shoulders heave, as if she were being sick, and then immediately fly to a spot in the hedge a little farther on. Following...
That most major-leaguers are married men with children may help save big-league baseball for 1943. But the small minor leagues-where players are young, most games are played at night, and bus transportation is the mainstay-have little hope of survival. If the bush leagues fold, big-league clubs will be forced to let their farm systems go to seed, ending the annual harvest of young players. But, conscious of their obligation to "civilian morale and the boys overseas" (as well as to their own investments), club owners intend to go ahead until the Government says "Stop...
...stepped from the train at Dawson Creek on to the crunchy snow to start surveying the route. His was the big worry when scores of cats were bogged down in the slush, and the rains seemed never to stop. Impatient, Hoge steamboated up and down the road in Bush Pilot Les Cook's seaplane, watched the men slogging it through. He said little, eyeing the tremendous job, but every mucker and cat driver knew the general was on the job. "A tough guy, but square," they said. "A regular guy too. He sure likes that Yukon chicken...