Word: bushed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fresh proof of their usefulness came from Allied Headquarters last week with the announcement that Staff Sergeant Grady Gaston, of Frisco City,Ala. was recovering after wandering in the wild bush country for 111 days. Gaston was one of the crewmen who bailed out of a U.S. Liberator bomber in a blinding storm on Dec. 1. Three officers with him died in the jungle ; Gaston was saved when a native found him on March...
Australians call the bush-haired natives "Abos" or "Boongs"; the complex, almost telepathic process by which they trail missing men is "blacktracking." Soon after U.S. troops arrived, two soldiers took a furlough to go hunting, and got bushed. A tracker turned them up in jig time after 400 white soldiers had scoured the area in vain...
Charlie No. 2 Takes Over. Instructions are usually given in the crudest of pidgin English. If a plane is known to be down in the bush an officer may order: "Charlie No. 2, you all along go find a motor-car-run-along-sky come down that way." (The number distinguishes this tracker from Charlie...
These prophetic lines were spoken on Thanksgiving Day, 1922, by Mrs. Irving T. Bush, third wife of Manhattan's Warehouse Magnate Irving T. Bush (Bush Terminal). Mrs. Bush is a substantial, auburn-haired woman of middle years whose vaticinal gifts extend from prose to painting. Last week her dramatic canvases were shown at Manhattan's Grand Central Galleries. Famine, painted ten years ago, was depicted by an enormous white bird hovering over a ghost town; sabotage was symbolized by a factory through which a serpent wove its way. In another picture plumbing the future, a dragon Hitler encountered...
They Do It. Mrs. Bush declares that her prophecies, in whatever form, are determined by what she calls "They." She has tried to paint without "Them" but has not been satisfied. Of her normal procedure she says: "They move my hand up and down and onward. . . . Then, all at once, They make a rudimentary sketch or perhaps They begin to paint without any sketch or outline at all. They work rapidly and never fail to reprove me when I do not respond readily or if I am in any way inattentive." Mrs. Bush confesses to a horror of the supernatural...