Word: bushing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Democrats for their indigestion pills. From precinct after precinct came the news that Dwight Eisenhower was rolling up a massive plurality; in the final result, the G.O.P. made perhaps its most impressive showing in little Connecticut, racking up 63.7% against 1952's 55.7%, with U.S. Senator Prescott Bush and most other state candidates sailing home on Ike's coattails. Last week the President hand-picked-and the National Committee elected-for Republican national chairman the man who is entitled to much of the credit for the Connecticut record: plain-talking, swift-striding H. (for Hugh) Meade Alcorn...
...bees make no immediate decision, but the scouts continue to dance their reports after the swarm has separated and is hanging on a bush. Some favor a hollow tree 300 yards away; others have found a cranny under a barn floor. Often there are many factions, each dancing in a different direction. The debate may continue for several days...
When a swarm of bees separates from an established colony, it does not go at once to a new home. Most swarms settle on a bush or tree, and form themselves into buzzing balls with the queen in the center. After hours or days of debating, the swarm makes up its collective mind and flies to a suitable cranny...
...Douglas Bush, professor of English and a leading authority on Renaissance and seventeenth-century literature, has been named Gurney Professor of English literature, succeeding Hyder E. Rollins, who retired last July...
Widely known as a lecturer and teacher, Bush is also the author of many books on his field, and has contributed articles and reviews to several periodicals...