Word: bushed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...celebration fever mounted last week, thousands of plumed warriors with spears and blunderbusses hunted elephants, hippos and buffaloes in the bush to provide a fitting repast for the independence day feasting. Along Northern Rhodesia's Congo border, Bemba tribesmen blasted homemade, muzzle-loading guns into the night. In Lusaka, the capital, representatives from more than 60 nations gathered to watch the lighting of a 6-ft. freedom flame marking the rechristening of Northern Rhodesia as Zambia * and its proclamation as an independent republic within the British Commonwealth. President Kenneth Kaunda tooled around about town in his $11,000 Chrysler...
...those U.S. girls? Nobody was more shocked than New Jersey's Lesley Bush, 17, when she somersaulted to a gold medal from the 10-meter platform -except maybe Germany's Ingrid Kramer, who won the high dive in 1960 and was supposed to repeat. California's Donna de Varona, 17, led a one-two-three sweep of the women's 400-meter individual medley, and Cathy Ferguson, 16, set a new world record in the 100-meter backstroke. Of course, there was nothing anyone could do to stop Australia's ageless Dawn Fraser, 27, from...
Back to St. Louis went the Cardinals, to a tumultuous welcome at the airport, a sellout crowd at Busch Stadium ("Spell that Bush," growled one Yankee)-and the biggest collection of noisemakers and freon horns ever assembled west of the Mississippi. But the Yankees still had to be shown, jumped on five Cardinal pitchers for ten hits and an 8-3 victory. Once again the Series was all even, and now everything-$8,400 for the winners, $5,200 for the losers-was riding on the seventh game...
...telephones and a typewriter. The government captured only 63 guns, largely because the Viet Cong have taken to tying string to their weapons. Thus, when a guerrilla in an exposed position is shot, his buddies hiding near by can save at least the gun by pulling it into the bush...
...Schollander, a Yale freshman, won his third gold medal, setting a world record in the 400-meter freestyle with a 4:12.2 clocking. Lesley Bush, a 17-year-old from New Jersey, surprised defending champion Ingrid Kramer-Engel of Germany in woman's platform, diving. The women's 400-meter freestyle relay team took another gold medal for the U.S. Ian O'Brien of Australia won the 200-meter breaststroke in a world record 2:27.8 with America's Chet Jastremski third...