Word: bushed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This time around, Mba took out autocrat insurance. His bullyboys kidnaped an estimated 1,000 opposition supporters, dumped them hundreds of miles deep in the bush on election day. Even at that, anti-Mba candidates captured 53% of the popular vote. But thanks to convenient gerrymander and the 1,500 French settler votes that went almost unanimously to Mba in Libreville, his Bloc Démocratique Gabonais Party won 31 of the National Assembly's 47 seats. Immediately, a call for a general strike went up, and angry youths began gathering in Libreville's shady, bungalow-lined streets...
...each covering a score or more of Texas' 254 counties. This year, for the first time in history, Republicans will contest every one of the state's 23 house seats, and the May 2 G.O.P. primary may produce an attractive senatorial candidate in Houston's George Bush, son of Connecticut's former Senator Prescott Bush, to run against liberal Democrat Ralph Yarborough. The Democrats are beginning to react. In Dallas County, where eight of the nine state representatives are Republicans, they are trying to patch up a twelve-year-old feud, have hopes of giving five...
...Henry Ford wants you to be blunt," says Iacocca, "and I happen to be blunt. We don't try to Alphonse and Gaston each, other, and we don't try to beat around the bush." Iacocca marshals his arguments so well and pushes his ideas so hard that Ford once stopped him just as he was winding up to make a speech and said: "All right, Lee, now let's get the facts, or you'll sell us without our knowing them...
Martinez' head lamp. In the nick of time, he flung the lamp to the ground, and the party scattered into the bush. Says Martinez: "I'm still shuddering...
...pumas; 6-ft. iguanas and huge (up to 4 ft. wide) alligators sun themselves along the river banks. But it is for the dense jungles of Sarapiqui, northeast of San Jose, that U.S. hunters are heading. There, packs of as many as 1,000 wild pigs grunt through the bush, uprooting and trampling all the foliage in their path. Timid, 600-lb. tapirs-distant relatives of the African rhinoceros-plod warily along the narrow, muddy trails. Chachalacas, parrots and howler monkeys noise endlessly from the tree tops...