Word: bushing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from ambush with blazing Bren and Sten guns. When help came, it was too late-twelve of the repair party were dead. One of them was Richard Michael Clinton Codner, who had been wounded by machine gun fire, tried to crawl to cover, and was shot dead beneath a bush...
...hold, had rushed in dead of night upon their guards, seized bayonets, and sliced their way through British flesh to mastery of the H.M.S. Renown. The dawn lit a scarlet scene: human rubble on the decks, the scuppers running with gore, the Spaniards in command. Brave Lieut. Bush, bleeding from nine wounds, lay hidden after the melee behind a cannon's hulk. "What would England say?" he asked himself bitterly. "What would the navy say?" Ah God, if only Hornblower had been there...
...suddenly, with a grinding crash as two ships came together, "there was Hornblower, hatless, swinging his leg over and leaping down to the deck, sword in hand, the others leaping with him on either side." The charge was sweeping the deck; Bush tried to spring forward to join it but his legs would not move. Soon, hands were lifting his head. "'Bush! Bush!' That was Hornblower's voice, pleading and tender. 'Bush, please, speak...
Following the suggestion of Dr. Vannevar Bush, Provost Buck yesterday announced the appointment of Dr. George F. Carrier as George McKay Professor of Mechanical Engineering. This is the first of several such positions...
...Bush was head of a panel which recommended the development of applied science and engineering under the bequest of McKay...