Word: bushed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some ten miles south, on Tinian Island, where the Enola Gay took off with the A-bomb for Hiroshima and jungle encroaches on concrete roads named Broadway, Fifth Avenue and Lexington Avenue. Jones is clearing the bush for his largest investment in Micronesia's future, the BarK ranch. He leased 7,500 acres of Government land, almost one-third of the entire island, has already built 32 miles of fence and brought in 920 head of Black Angus-Hereford cattle from New Zealand. His goal is a herd of 8,000 head, plus hogs and chickens to supply...
...federal government, has tried to keep his men in line, but without much success. Ragtag recruits who "mop up" after Gowon's armies have joined local tribesmen brandishing machetes and cutlasses in "Ibo hunts." In the Midwest, they rounded up thousands of Ibo and marched them into the bush for slaughter...
...Connally Democrats. In a 1961 runoff election to fill Johnson's old Senate seat, Conservative Republican John Tower won handily, was re-elected last year with a startling 57% victory margin. Next year, Tower will be a possibility for the governorship, along with freshman Republican Congressman George Bush, a 20-year Texas resident who is the son of Connecticut's former Senator, Prescott Bush...
...often melodramatic reports of broadcasting journalists. In the early days of the Viet Nam war, the carryover of this bravura style was evident in the TV reporters who, packing pearl-handled revolvers and cocking their helmets at a rakish angle, would instruct some G.I.s to fire aimlessly into the bush so that it seemed as though they were in the midst of battle...
...Giro Roberto Bustos, who stood trial with Debray, and British Free lance Photographer George Roth, who was later released. At first, Debray claimed that he was a journalist on assignment for a Mexican magazine and backed up his claim by describing how he had interviewed Che Guevara in the bush. That gave the Bolivian government its first real evidence that the elusive Che was actually leading the guerrilla movement, and the army immediately stepped up its anti-guerrilla offensive to try to get him. Eventually, it stamped out most of the 50-member band and captured and executed Che himself...