Word: bushed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dispela Man Humbug." So eager were the natives to learn about democracy that word filtered over the bush telegraph that no electoral patrols would be attacked, "even with sticks and stones." In 12,000 villages and thousands of isolated hamlets, the teams used films to teach the natives voting techniques. To offset tribal boredom, lectures were interspersed with tape recordings of local "sing-sing" music. But presentations occasionally flopped. In one back-country village, natives complained that the voter shown on one of the election drawings was unknown to them. "Dispela man humbug mi no lookin dispela man wantain bepo...
...independence, or the research facilities offered by the U.S. And right now, Britain is in the midst of a crash program of university expansion (TIME, Oct. 11), which has further reduced the funds, space and time for research that the nation's top brains demand. Said Professor Ian Bush, 35, a brilliant physiologist who is taking a nine-man team from the University of Birmingham to new quarters in the Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology in Shrewsbury, Mass.: "Most of us feel extremely cramped and frustrated...
...Typist. Bush, for example, is forced to teach medical students with equipment that is 20 to 40 years out of date. He could have received a grant to buy a new electron microscope, he said, but he could not get the money to remodel a room with soundproofing and wiring for the delicate instrument. Lesser irritations are also common. Owing to a shortage of secretaries and typewriters, Bush often had to type his own letters...
...Bush's switch stunned the Medical Research Council, which complained that after financing his work for years, "the benefit will be felt in the U.S." When such eminent scientists as the University of Bristol's Maurice Pryce, chief of the theoretical physics division at the government atomic energy center at Harwell, and Anthony Pople, head of the basic physics research at the Teddington National Laboratory, also said they were leaving for the U.S., the exodus touched off a political uproar...
Either abuilding or on drawing boards in Germany are scores of new designs, ranging from conventional single-engine "bush" planes through corporate-size jets to medium-range airliners. But, though the Hamburger Flugzeugbau's new executive jet will make its maiden flight next month, most German planemakers are beginning to realize that the German aircraft indus try faces almost overwhelming competition in the present crowded world market. Their best bet, as they see it, is to try somehow to weather their present crisis by getting more licensing work. Meanwhile, hoping to get the jump on others, they plan...