Word: bushed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rise of the Critics. Meanwhile the country's timber-based economy stagnated. This year France cut off its $1,100,000 annual dole, and Youlou raised taxes. Basic food prices doubled, and as bush people kept streaming into crowded Brazzaville, 19 out of every 20 Africans in the city were without work. Then Youlou made his worst mistake-he asked Guinea's demagogic, leftish President Sékou Touré for a visit. Instead of uttering niceties, the guest electrified the locals with denunciations of African leaders who turn wealthy bourgeois...
...information about the tax rolls. He testified that jurors are selected from the list of owners of either real property or personalty, but that whites are listed in front of the tax book, and Negroes in the back on yellow pages. Then the clerk of the court, Leslie Bush, a thin man with brush hair cut, tried to sidestep the emerging evidence that an "N" was placed after Negroes on the jury lists. Except he called them "niggers" and Atty. Hollowell requested the court to reprimand the witness for using improper language. The court refused and Bush declared that...
...them about $15,000 a month. "We ourselves like pure jazz best," says one Okayiste, "but our people don't like it. If we only played jazz, we'd soon go broke." Always on the lookout for old African tribal melodies, band members often go into the bush to watch village dances, rework the tunes when they return to town. Often old men appear from villages with melodies they want the Okayistes to hear. "They play it on their primitive instruments-a few strings strung across a box," says one of Franco...
When sighted by veteran bush pilot Don Sheldon, the seven were at 17,000 feet. The last time they had been seen was a week ago, when they scaled 2000 feet of the previously unconquered east side of Mt. McKinley's Wickersham Wall. Observers had expressed apprehension that the party had been buried in one of a series of avalanches that swept Wickersham Wall recently, but the climbers are now above the avalanche region and are apparently out of danger...
...decides he would rather take Anita, who poses as the daughter of a missionary. "I feel," she murmurs seductively as they bounce through the bush, "as though layers of civilization were being peeled off me." Hope rolls his eyes. "Wonderful girl," he mutters. "All heart." But Edie Adams, a CIA cutie who has come along for the ride, has other ideas. "There's something about her," she says flatly, "that's false...