Word: bushing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dozen cities and resorts this summer heard music, some of it free, in parks, bowls, stadiums, on a river bank (in Washington). Conductors there were by the dozen, but few topnotchers. Bruno Walter tried out as a summer bush leaguer, was well received at Hollywood Bowl and the San Francisco World's Fair.* In Chicago, Grant Park attendance, the largest in the U. S., was expected to total 3,500,000 people from June 1 to Labor Day. Typical figures elsewhere: 300,000 at Manhattan's Stadium; 123,000 for twelve free concerts in Washington...
...They gave the American Association's Louisville Colonels $75,000 for Infielder Peewee Reese. They gave the St. Louis Cardinals $200,000 for Outfielder Ducky Medwick. Last week, while Rookie Reese was on the side lines with a broken heel bone and Slugger Medwick was hitting like a bush leaguer, Brooklyn fans crammed Ebbets Field to salute the player they consider the most valuable Dodger of the year: Pitcher Freddy Fitzsimmons, a Giant castoff picked up for a song three years...
...mountains near the coast, which rise as high as 6,500 ft. in a wall behind Berbera, it rains only 2½ inches per year. In July and August a hot, dry monsoon blows from the blazing Ethiopian hinterland. Nothing grows in British Somaliland except thorn trees, dense dry "bush" and tough desert fodder to keep alive the nomadic natives' herds of sheep, goats, camels, ostriches...
Italy's object in the far-flung bush battles of the war in East Africa is to bite off pieces of France's colonies in the north, gain control of Egypt and the Suez, and bite into Great Britain's holdings in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, British Somaliland, Kenya Colony...
Tommy Bridges, another veteran of the Tigers' 1935 world-championship team, proved that his curves were as dependable as ever. Rookie Harold Newhouser, a homebred 18-year-old southpaw, made the Yankees look like bush leaguers. And Louis ('"Buck") Newsom, a cocky. 31-year-old righthander, marked his first full year with Detroit by winning 13 games in a row before breaking his thumb three weeks...