Word: bushed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After several weeks in the bush ("a devilish shrub . . . chest high and thickly matted together, it is covered with sharp thorns half an inch long"), Tweed and his friend Al Tyson moved into a hole in a hillside that was "practically the Waldorf-Astoria." And a native friend brought them a radio. But a search party soon drove them...
Among other. things, onrushing Allied armies have been capturing a good deal of topnotch German technical equipment. Last week Dr. Vannevar Bush's OSRD told how U.S. ingenuity had put some of this equipment to use in spite of Nazi effort to sabotage...
Stomach Abracadabra. The doctor who hung his shingle in the village or rode circuit through the forest was, often as not, a quack. Charms were popular: for convulsions, pour baptismal water over the peony bush; for bedwetting, fried-mouse pie; for a cold, crawl through a double-rooted briar toward the east; for a fever, write "Abracadabra" on a piece of paper and wear it over the stomach. Manufactured charms included "Perkins Patent Tractors" (metal rods to draw out disease) and "Dr. Christie's Galvanic Belt . . . for all nervous diseases...
Fire Crackers. In Okmulgee, Okla., the Rev. Howard Bush heard a prowler, called the sheriff, lay in wait outside, got cold and hungry, went back into the house. When he came out, he was challenged, could not answer because his mouth was full of crackers, was shot in the stomach by the sheriff...
...severe shortages of strategic metals; the Germans have been doing it for five years. The Japs are not troubled by the problem; they have plenty of strategic metals. These hard facts were reported last week by U.S. metallurgists who have analyzed captured enemy war materiel for Dr. Vannevar Bush's OSRD...