Word: bushing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Worshipers. Base camp for Teacher Duff's job is the jungle outpost of Yarinacocha. Bush planes fly the Tennessee teacher and her partner, Florida-reared Mary Ruth Wise, to the vicinity of Amuesha villages, land on the rivers. From there the journeys are by foot or raft. For three months each year, the women return to Yarinacocha with likely Indian prospects, help turn the natives into teachers. The Peruvian government pays salaries of Indian teachers and helps finance the base settlement, but Teacher Duff and fellow linguists who work with other tribes are supported by Wycliffe Bible Translators...
...been an Eisenhower State Department appointee and remains thoroughly responsive to the President's wishes, announced that he would vote for the Old Guard candidate for Senate leader, Illinois Everett Dirksen. Exception: he would support his Kentucky colleague, John Sherman Cooper, sponsored by Connecticut's Prescott Bush, for Republican leader if Cooper got into the running. But later Cooper withdrew...
James S. Ackerman, visiting lecturer in Fine Arts, J. N. Douglas Bush, Gurney Professor of English Literature, Sir Hamilton A. R. Gibb, University Professor, and Renato Poggioli, chairman of the Department of Comparative Literature, participated at the first meeing of the group this past weekend...
...study will be beamed partly at the general public and partly at teachers, writers and students," Bush noted. "An attempt will be made to define humanistic aspects of natural and social sciences and to recommend general improvements in teaching and scholarship...
...after 100 ESPPs hired a nearby boat club for a party. Togged in civilian clothes, they drank beer, played bridge, settled down to sing homemade songs.* Irked by the noise and obscenity, neighbors called the cops. State troopers, accompanied by an Army Criminal Investigation agent, swooped out of the bush, grabbed a handful of men while the majority filtered into the darkness. When the handful was ordered court-martialed, the trial became a celebrated case. ESPPs at the Chemical Center and other ESPP "campuses" chipped in $300 to a defense fund, hired flamboyant Baltimore Lawyer Hyman Pressman, a longtime expert...