Word: bushed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Four teachers will instruct in six-room thatched-roof schoolhouses in the bush country. They may also help towns-people to enlarge the schools, and will probably have to build their own huts. Others will live in community centers, teaching reading and writing to natives undergoing detribalization...
From Tanganyika to Trinidad and from towering city branches to tiny one-room shacks in the bush, the 1,340 overseas offices of Britain's biggest bank carry the same inscription: "Barclays Bank D.C.O." Wags insist that the initials stand for "debtors, creditors and overdrafts." but in fact they stand for nothing. In 1954. as the British empire retrenched, Barclays prudently struck out "Dominion, Colonial and Overseas" from its longtime overseas title and left the meaningless initials. Today it is involved in a profitable partnership with onetime colonials that has raised its assets to $2.5 billion, a significant portion...
...were the doves of the N.H.L., so timid that from 1947 to 1958 their only excursion outside the cellar was fourth place in 1953. At last. Owner Jim Norris took a gamble that few fans thought would work. As the club's 22nd coach, he chose a tall, bush-browed, front-office man named Rudy Pilous, who had no professional coaching experience...
...town knows that he stands six foot six and has a long jagged scar on his face. His teeth are few, yellow and rotten. His eyes pop, and most of the time he drools. He eats raw squirrels and all the cats he can catch, and whenever an azalea bush dies in Maycomb everybody knows why-Boo breathed...
...African soldiers from the routed Katangese army, who slip across the Congo line to peddle their weapons to eager white and black Rhodesians who may one day use them on each other. In the east, smugglers from the Portuguese colony of Mozambique make their way through the wild, mountainous bush to bring in dagga weed (marijuana) and take out gold stolen by workmen in Rhodesian mines. Last week the harried border guards had a new chore: to prevent the smuggling of hops into Southern Rhodesia. At Beitbridge, on the Limpopo River, a customs officer dutifully searched the luggage...