Word: bushing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...into trying for the Senate seat now held by Kentucky's Earle Clements, in arranging for Interior Secretary McKay to hit the Oregon trail against Wayne Morse. Among incumbent Republican Senators who can expect Ike's direct aid are Pennsylvania's Duff, Connecticut's Prescott Bush and Wisconsin's Alexander Wiley...
...became a leading figure in the colony's criminal courts, winning acquittals for his clients and some $112,000 a year for himself. Bored with the businessman's Progressive Party, he switched to the Singapore Labor Party, vaguely socialistic and violently anticolonial. A flamboyant, pipe-smoking, bush-shirted political campaigner, he posed as the prophet of merdeka...
...muscular (6 ft. 1 in., 190 Ibs.), 29-year-old fugitive from the chores on an Illinois farm is almost too good to be true. Ever since he came up to the Phillies in 1948 after two brief months in the bush leagues, he has plodded out to take his pitching turn with every-fourth-day regularity. Dedicated to the old-fashioned notion that he is getting paid for throwing the ball over the plate, and not for demonstrating some trick delivery or practicing some offbeat vaudeville act for the TV cameras, Roberts has performed his job with an efficiency...
...arrived in 1922, when Vice President Coolidge was presiding. As a moderate from the Deep South, Walter George had fought strenuously for his principles (anti-Ku Klux Klan, pro-Tennessee Valley Authority, anti-Franklin Roosevelt's plan to pack the Supreme Court). Connecticut's Republican Senator Prescott Bush said he hoped that he might some day command the kind of respect that prompted George's wife always to call him "Mr. George." Rolled into the Senate chamber in a wheelchair, Colorado's ailing Republican Senator Eugene Millikin, who is facing a re-election battle this year...
...wind box" (iron lung) took care of Charlie's breathing and shook his faith in the infallibility of tribal magic. To clinch it, the doctors gave him his tucker (food) intravenously and by stomach tube. Charlie, half-starved, had wandered six days in the bush without food. As he regained some strength, Charlie seemed to regain some will to live...