Word: bushing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chose physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer '26 of Princeton's Institute of Advanced Study, Vannevar Bush of the Atomic Energy Commission, John Dickey, President of Dartmouth College and Allen W. Dulles of the Central Intelligence Agency for the task. These in turn picked Bundy...
...Moscow Strikes (MARCH OF TIME) is a feature-length documentary dramatizing some of the challenging ideas about science, democracy and war from Dr. Vannevar Bush's 1949 book, Modern Arms and Free Men. As Dr. Bush sets forth his theories before a Maine town-hall gathering, this film effectively illustrates them with newsreel clips, diagrams, animated film and re-enacted scenes...
...Bush, who was boss of all U.S. Government scientists during World Wrar II, traces the evolution of scientific combat through two world wars. Radar, sonar, proximity fuses, guided missiles and atomic bombs, he points out, have almost overnight made modern warfare incalculably more swift and destructive than ever before. Even more awesome weapons are imminent: atomic rockets guided by television and atom missiles launched from submarines...
...face of such nuclear juggernauts, can civilization survive a totalitarian onslaught? Dr. Bush is optimistic. Another great war need not come, he says, if democracy stocks its arsenal of preparedness -and its arsenal of liberty. The mightiest of modern arms, Dr. Bush concludes, cannot crush free men armed with the resourcefulness and ideals of democracy...
...Strictly Bush! In Boston, after a particularly bitter exchange with Durocher during one tight game, Stanky loosed his famed insult: "Durocher, you've been a busher all your life, and you'll always be a busher." When asked to comment on Durocher's book, The Dodgers and Me, Stanky was ready with a brief, stinging literary criticism: "Just like the author. Strictly bush...