Word: bushing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mamie, his son. Major John Eisenhower, and John's wife, Barbara. Their table was placed before the television set so they could watch the early returns. When Presidential News Secretary James Hagerty brought in press reports that the President had swept Connecticut and that Republican U.S. Senator Prescott Bush was reelected, Ike's reaction was a broad smile and an exultant "That's swell...
Connecticut: Ike stands to win by plurality com parable to 129,363 of 1952. If he does, G.O.P. Senator Prescott Bush should be safe against an effective challenger, Democratic Congressman Thomas Dodd...
...Garden to an ear-shattering welcome touched off less by the mawkish maneuvers of such professional crowd churners as Walter Winchell and Fred Waring than by the President's own grin and greeting. Ike plugged heartily for Republican Senatorial Candidates Jacob Javits of New York and Prescott Bush of Connecticut, then proudly reviewed G.O.P. accomplishmients during the last "four years of memorable meaning" and his expectations for the next four...
...peace to boot," "the weight-lifting act" for his line that "every man can hold up Dwight Eisenhower to his children as a man who has faith in God, faith in America and who has restored dignity and respect to the highest office in the land," and "the bush-leaguer" for his assertion that "Adlai Stevenson just isn't in the same league with President Eisenhower...
...have painted him as an attractive young liberal, while they have grown increasingly hostile toward Furcolo. A much more reserved campaigner than Whittier, Furcolo often appears more self-conscious than confident. But a reconciliation with popular Sen. John F. Kennedy '39 and the extensive efforts of his party's bush beaters managed to give the Longmeadow lawyer an almost 3-to-1 victory in last month's Democratic primary...