Word: bushing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...think that Dr. Oppenheimer had considerable power with men like Conant, Bush and Groves...
...join them against the government and its Red friends. The first actual shooting came as insurgent aircraft strafed fuel tanks and airfields and dropped a few homemade bombs. Days later, two infantry task forces of a few hundred men each fumbled their way toward each other in the bush near a sleepy town called Zacapa and opened the ground fighting. The battle picture was obscure, but the government claimed that it had 3,000 men in "a general offensive" against 2,000 rebels along a line north and south of Zacapa...
Because the veto paralyzed the council, the OAS Inter-American Peace Commission held itself in readiness to take up the Guatemalan question. But events in the narrow streets and bush trails of Guatemala could move faster than any commission ; the Arbenz regime could be shattered - or it could emerge victorious and cockier than ever. Jacobo Arbenz, stubborn as ever, clapped on a tougher form of martial law, tightened up on blackouts, authorized his cops to shoot motorists caught with headlights on during a night alert...
...Bush Arbor. Across the street from the Windmill is a vacant...
...congregation, and sweating with fervor, Evangelist Poole shouted and whispered into his microphone. "I used to be a drunkard," he would yell. "I used to curse and tell lies and all those things. But I've been saved! ... If you come, you can find God around this old bush arbor ... If you go home lost tonight, it's not my fault." His flock would begin to groan and shout, to shake and roll in the sawdust. Then a string quartet would take over, and the hymn-singing would send everyone into still more shouts and gyrations...