Word: buss
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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ORVAL EUGENE FAUBUS (rhymes with raw buss) was born 47 years ago in a rough-cut plank cabin near Greasy Creek, so far back in the Ozarks of northwest Arkansas that the first paved road to the outside world was not completed 'until 1949. when Orval Faubus was a state highway commissioner. He trapped skunk and muskrat to help his family scratch out a living from their hill farm, and trudged five miles a day to a one-room country school. Eager for book learning, he finally managed to graduate from Huntsville High School when he was 24, three...
...Minh, the goateed scholar and activist who is President of Communist North Viet Nam, last week smooched in comradely fashion with Polish Communist Chief Wladyslaw Gomulka, this week continued his buss ride through the satellites, reared back and thrust his deep-pile chops at Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito. Then, to prove there was Marxism beneath the mush, he fired off a blast at "imperialist America and its puppets, who are continuing to arm themselves in an attempt to dominate the world." Next target for Ho's communal cuddling: Albania's Enver Hoxha...
...dedication: ex-President Herbert Hoover, Eleanor Roosevelt, Chief Justice Earl Warren, Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon Johnson, Senate Republican Leader William Knowland, and durable old Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn, who passed the time of day with his old colleague, thrust out his snapping-turtle neck to plant a buss on the cheek of proud Bess Truman...
...below), Eisenhower even placated Treasury Secretary George Humphrey, the man who had tossed the first budget match. Clearly still a member of the Administration's happy family, Humphrey too headed South and, as the President's house guest, he was greeted at Bush airport by a buss from Mamie Eisenhower...
...typical childlike ruckus of his own. Photographers asked him. to kiss a little American girl, Mary Harris, granddaughter of U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia George Wadsworth. The prince tried to oblige, was repulsed. With that, Mashhur brandished a small fist, whacked the tearful girl on the shoulder, got his buss...