Word: hedgehopped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Heartening G.O.P. cohorts in the West was precisely one of the reasons that had brought the President winging out from Washington on a five-day hedgehop that carried the Columbine into five states and logged for Ike another 5,850 campaign miles. In Minnesota, where 500,000 jammed his path during a 33-mile tour of Minneapolis and St. Paul, the President extended coattails to Republican Gubernatorial Candidate Ancher Nelsen. Droning westward to the coast, he boosted Washington's Art Langlie and Oregon's Doug McKay, both hand-picked to run for the Senate, both lagging before...
...helicopter crews fought the fly itself, flew more than 300 missions in their U.S.-made Bell 47Gs. Repeatedly, they sprayed breeding sites with two powerful insecticides: lindamul, to coat the river and kill the larvae; lindane, to coat the foliage and kill the adult flies. The trick was to hedgehop the dense areas so closely that the insecticide would be blasted to the ground by the downwash from the rotors, would then boil up to saturate the underside of the foliage...
...months ago, he was handed one of the biggest assignments ever undertaken by a single reporter. His beat covered roughly 5,500,000 square miles,* in which five major languages and dozens of dialects are spoken, and in which he used any one of eleven different airlines to hedgehop from one country to another. This year, with the growing importance of news from the Middle East, it was decided that the job was too much for even such a peripatetic correspondent as Bell. Late this spring he was joined by Dave Richardson, who had been a TIME correspondent...