Word: bushing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Colorado's Allott, Maryland's Beall, Connecticut's Bush, Kansas' Carlson, New Jersey's Smith, New Hampshire's Cotton, Pennsylvania's Duff, New York's Ives, California's Kuchel, Maine's Payne, Massachusetts' Saltonstall...
Tools of Ignorance. There was never any doubt that Al Kaline would be a ball player. His grandfather was a bush-league catcher on the Eastern Shore; his old man and his uncles also wore the "tools of ignorance." They tried to turn Al into a pitcher. But in high school his speed afoot and his incredible batting eye earned him a slot where he belonged: in the outfield. Summers he played American Legion ball. His batting average wavered between .824 and .609. When the Tigers signed him in the summer of 1953, no one questioned their decision...
...Government must stop beating about the bush on the Quemoy and Matsu issue. We call for full frankness with the American people and our allies. If our military leaders think these islands are expendable and their loss will have no dangerous consequences for our ally [Nationalist China]-the strongest ally we have in Asia-and for our country and the common cause, then let our Government leaders frankly say so and put an end to the uncertainty as to the future of these islands...
...Geiger counter test on evaporated rain water in the Yard this past winter "sounded like a bobcat backing into a thorn bush," continued Thomas. "Most of the radiation that comes in rain or snow never gets beyond the roof, though any radioactive material that does get in decays very rapidly. There is no significant accumulation of irradiation of any amount in the water," he concluded...
...famed Peruvian singer combines her trick voice with the driving, big-band rhythms of Billy May. She growls like a bush-league Carmen, coloratours through the upper register like the Queen of the Night, and whoops like a jungle bird, but is it mambo...