Word: bushing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week a Senatorial Lone Ranger once more took the trail of the wild-riding, hell-for-leather Silver Bloc, grimly determined to stop the Treasury raids. Ordinarily, big, easygoing Senator John Gillis Townsend of Delaware is no Lone Ranger. Gregarious John Townsend, whose head looks like a snowball bush in full bloom, is solidly Republican, completely acceptable to Delaware's Du Pont dynasty. Annually he 1) presents gallery newsmen and the Senate with all the sweet-tart spring strawberries they can eat, 2) gets through sessions with as little effort as possible...
...scene in the House was an odd mixture of cowardice, confusion, misunderstanding. To beat around the bush of last autumn's Neutrality Act, the loan was restricted to non-military supplies. Michigan's nervous Representative John Dingell shouted: "To hell with Stalin and to hell with Hitler! . . . We restrict the loan for powder puffs, silken scanty panties and cream puffs, when we know the Finns need shrapnel,* buckshot, barbed wire and all the fiercest implements of hell because they are fighting to stop anti-Christ and the hosts of hell led by Beelzebub. ... Let every man stand...
...freed 91 players, four of them brought up from the farms to Detroit's own roster, the rest secretly kept in "cold storage" on bush-league teams from Shreveport to Seattle. Detroit had prized this buried talent at something like $500,000. Beyond this paper loss, it had to shell out some $50,000 in adjustments. One team with which Detroit had a secret deal, Hot Springs in the Cotton States League, found itself with only one player after the great emancipation...
...Bolsheviks under the Tsar. Between sessions the comrades played poker, told dirty stories, went swimming, romanced with female delegates, played practical jokes on the three Russian observers from Moscow (Comintern "Reps"), threw a shoe at one who kept them awake while he wooed Comrade Rose Pastor Stokes. Every bush concealed a caucus...
...answers are easy enough to spot. He beats around the bush and pours out his trite interpretations whether they are relevant or not. He writes what he has been told to write beforehand, without using his own brain as a middleman. He uses a few cliches until they turn to ashes in the corrector's mouth...