Word: bushing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...former Democratic National Chairman Stephen Mitchell and onetime (1946) National Housing Administrator Wilson W. Wyatt, who were the key managers in Stevenson's 1952 campaign. When a reporter commented that this chain of command showed that Stevenson had decided to use professional politicians this time instead of "socalled bush-league advisers," the candidate waved in the direction of Mitchell and Wyatt and cracked: "Will you bushmen all stand up, please...
...while Mavis' grandmother knelt down with a basin of water and washed the girl's wan face. Slowly, the body stirred and turned over, face down. Father and grandmother dropped hammer and basin and rushed from the hut. Followed by the 200 mourners, they ran into the bush crying mercy from the voodoo gods...
...Tate Gallery. The paintings represented a lifetime devoted to religious themes−all depicted in the comfortable everyday terms of barnyards, country lanes and the River Thames around Painter Spencer's small native Berkshire village of Cookham (pop. 5,900) 27 miles west of London. Burning Bush. The son of a church organist Spencer got his training at London's Slade School of Fine Art, served as a medical corpsman and infantry soldier in World War I before returning to Cookham. It was in Cookham that Spencer had his day of revelation: "Quite suddenly I became aware that...
...miles in a day-that it is usually futile to try to track them down. They are mostly bagged as a sort of bonus by men who set out primarily for deer or elk and run into a grizzly or black bear on their trails through the bush...
...guys at Middlebury are bush," said a white-bucked "social chairman" who evidently wasn't feeling especially social at the time...