Word: bushing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...They are treasures to Walt, and somehow his wonder and delight in the things he discovers make them treasures to millions who know how dearly come by are such things as wonder and delight. Besides, there is always the chance that, when he comes bursting out of the next bush, face all scratched and lumberjacket full of stickers, he may be clutching in his hand some truly precious thing: perhaps, who knows, as precious as-a mouse...
...eloquent argument for censure came from Connecticut's Republican Senator Prescott Bush. McCarthy, said Bush, has "caused dangerous divisions among the American people because of his attitude and the attitude he has encouraged among his followers: that there can be no honest differences of opinion with him. Either you must follow Senator McCarthy blindly, not daring to express any doubts or disagreements about any of his actions, or, in his eyes, you must be a Communist, a Communist sympathizer, or a fool who has been duped by the Communist line." Bush defended Censure Committee Chairman Arthur Watkins from...
...mercilessly and terribly beaten about the head. She was unrecognizable, except in profile." When taken away to the family hospital. Sam Sheppard "was mumbling incoherently to himself." Once he said: "My God-Marilyn's dead!" Later, he blamed the murder on a burly, bush-haired intruder with whom he had struggled futilely...
...state from Washington in mid-campaign, colorless, conscientious Guy Cordon, 64, discovered he was in a horse race, rode off to the hustings to deliver attacks on Republican-turned-Independent-Democrat Wayne Morse, his Senate colleague who backed Neuberger. Although Cordon's managers, unused to hard bush-beating, never got his campaign into full gallop, it seemed unlikely that a Republican would lose in Oregon...
...unusually good one. The son of Jewish immigrant parents, Ribicoff, after working his way through college and law school, served four years in Congress and compiled a voting record of independent liberalism. In 1952 he ran for the Senate but lost to Eisenhower's coattails and Senator Prescott Bush. His showing was so impressive, however, that John M. Bailey, the state Democratic boss, handpicked him to oppose Lodge in this race...