Word: bushed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...step back ten feet from a microphone and fill up a room, it's a new experience." For that matter, Sergio himself has never been in an opera house of major importance-at least not as a singer. But he has sung all the great tenor roles on bush-league tours of South Africa and Europe...
...including lamps) in 25 years, with a consequent drain on power. But electricity has also become a necessity in whole areas of the world that only recently regarded it as a luxury. In Kenya, for example, the East African Power & Lighting Co. is busy stringing cables through the bush to grass-roofed huts...
Forging a Party. On July 7, 1954, Nyerere converted a social club into the Tanganyika African National Union. TANU was his from then on. Off into the back country he went to recruit members and cut tribal bonds. Wearing green bush shirts, slacks and leather sandals, waving an ivory-topped cane and chain-smoking Clipper cigarettes (he has since stopped), Nyerere began touring Tanganyika in a battered Land Rover. "I still remember the license-DSK 750," he reminisces. "We had to push so often over the mudholes that I will never forget it." A low-key speaker who never talked...
Back to the Bush. Turning over the prime ministry to his reliable, mild-mannered deputy, Rashidi Kawawa...
Julius jumped into his Land Rover and began beating through the bush. In flyblown Indian Ocean towns and sun-seared mud-hut villages in Chaggaland, he recruited new grass-roots leaders and urged participation in the self-help program...