Word: bushing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Vannevar Bush, director of the U.S. Office of Scientific Research and Development during World War II, now president of the Carnegie Institution. Bush had "complete confidence in Oppenheimer's loyalty, judgment and integrity." But he would not presume to prejudge the case before the board...
...York Times Magazine, the Carnegie Institution's respected President Vannevar Bush, onetime chairman of the Pentagon's Research and Development Board, decried the whole spirit of the inquiry: "In looking at the scene, scientists generally see only slightly concealed an inclination to exclude anyone who does not conform completely to the judgment of those who in one way or another have acquired authority...
...Sanders stage, along with the Radcliffe trustees, will be Professor of English J. Douglas Bush, Harvard's official representative...
...Commandments. Wright projected a huge (175 ft. wide by 100 ft. tall) pyramidal structure in the form of a distorted hexagon. The main auditorium will seat 1,200. Dominating the interior will be a 40-ft. high ark of the covenant, faced with colored glass to symbolize the burning bush that was not consumed. The pulpit will be in the center, a return to the custom of ancient times, which emphasized what Rabbi Cohen calls "the democratic relationship between the religious leader and the congregation." The exterior will be double-walled-blue-tinted plastic under white-wired glass. A copper...
...complained of aches and pains, and, as Poppa fancifully recalled the diagnosis, spotted 1) three compressed vertebrae, 2) a ruptured kidney and liver, 3) a collapsed intestine, 4) a brain concussion, 5) partial blindness, 6) bad scalp burns. Moreover, before sailing from Mombasa, Poppa had rushed off into the bush as a volunteer firefighter. There he got badly burned again but never said much about it, because by then "people would have thought I was hamming it." Now on the mend under Spain's warm spring sun, Hemingway, planning to head for his Cuban home next month...