Word: bushing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...proceed to our next point by moonlight. The whole force is parked there in the open and what a marvelous sight it was. ... At 12:30 I awake to the sound of scurrying feet and rat-a-tat-tat, peeng, bang! We're being fired on from the bush, and shots and ricochets are whizzing past our heads. I'm perfectly unafraid. . . . Our troops near the bush return the fire and the Banda . . . fade into the night. ... At 2:30 a.m. enemy firing starts in earnest. They're firing right down our lines, the peeng of their...
Came dawn and zero hour is on hand. . . . A Company forms up and. . . we're on our way. . . . What bush! Armored cars accompany us and it's still a miracle how they got through. A Company are to contact the enemy, artillery is to open up and the rest of the battalion is going to mop up the pieces. Our planes roar overhead, the heat is killing, the pace is terrific. We reach our first bound but the enemy are gone. I pass the word around: "Save your water." I rinse my mouth out and we go forward...
Another, uglier shadow preyed on the U.S. mind: Communism in the labor movement. There were few clearly marked trails. Outside of Congressman Martin Dies, who blazed away every time a bush shook, few saw any definite mark to aim at. But the Communists were like skunks: no one had to see them to know that they were there. Many a Congressman got a whiff. Democratic Leader McCormack announced before the Allis-Chalmers settlement: "We know that the Communists are in there working in Milwaukee." To OPM's angry William Knudsen, the important part of the Allis-Chalmers strike...
...Caldwell, 29. The four had wined, dined and danced, and they watched the fireflies a while before calling it a night. Then Sir Jock drove Mrs. Carberry home, and the Earl, Miss Caldwell. Several hours later the Earl's car was found on a lonely road in the bush. Crumpled on the floor beneath the wheel was the dead body of the Earl, a bloodied bullet hole near the left ear. It looked like suicide-but there was no gun to be seen...
...program board, Henry Steinhardt '42, Robert T. Mack, Jr. '42, Alfred Lurie '43, Curtis A. Bush '43, Richard P. Kleeman '44, and Howard M. Spiro '44 were selected. Victor M. Kumin '43 and Richard L. Weinberg '43 were picked for the production staff...