Word: bushing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cairo, a spry cousin of Egypt's ex-King Farouk, former Nobleman Abbas Halim, digressed slightly while trying to prove to a revolutionary court that he is no traitor. According to Halim, 56 and sexy, Farouk. for all his leering and prancing, is a bush-league lover. "Farouk had an inferiority complex with women," Halim testified. "This is why he ran so much after them. He wanted to show he was tough with the fair sex. Whenever we were competing to gain a lady's favor, I won out without difficulty." With the court hanging on every word...
...Lima who had a treasure map. Sure enough, Clark found his man and paid him $100 for "a yellowed, badly cracked and very old Spanish parchment." From the little road's-end town of La Merced one July morning, accompanied by a Peruvian guide, he headed into the bush and six months of savagery...
John N. D. Bush, professor of English, commented, "The early death of Dylan Thomas means the loss of a richly individual poet. He was both erratic and inspired, but at his best he had a rare intensity of vision and bardic prodigality of utterance." Bush is a specialist in 16th and 17th century poetry...
Without help from either official Roman Catholic sources or Philadelphia newspapers, word of the vision got around. Crowds of people began to gather in Fairmount Park, many of them invalids praying for a cure. Rosaries, holy pictures and photographs were left hanging on the bush out of which, the teen-agers said, the Virgin had appeared...
Paule Emile LaPointe, chief pilot for Quebecair Inc., a Canadian bush airline, was making a routine charter flight in a Douglas DC-3 from Goose Bay, Labrador to Mont Joli, Quebec one afternoon last June. With him was his copilot, Bill Awatter. Because the weather was clear, they dropped to about 1,000 feet and began looking for a Beechcraft that had been lost with two men aboard earlier this year. Awatter took the controls, and LaPointe concentrated on ground search...