Word: bushed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Where were those proud Katangese defenders? Hundreds of gendarmes had fled into the bush before the blue-helmeted U.N. troops arrived. Some 75 white mercenaries, including a pistol-packing blonde ambulance driver known around town as Madame Yvette, had taken off for the Angolan border. But most of Tshombe's 2.000 bedraggled men paid heed to his plea to "cooperate with the U.N. and our Congolese brothers," dutifully stacked their arms at a nearby depot. At his yellow villa on the edge of Kolwezi, Tshombe greeted Noronha with a grin. "Nobody shot at you, I see," he cracked. Replied...
...province. Only the western copper town of Kolwezi remained in Katanga's grip; it was defended by 2,000 boozy gendarmes, 100 of Tshombe's white mercenaries, and a smashing blonde ambulance driver known as "Madame Yvette," who sauntered about in paratroop boots, camouflage uniform, bush hat and shoulder holster. Only 50 miles from Kolwezi, Indian infantrymen probed cautiously forward, waiting only for the signal to head full blast toward the town. But the signal would not be given rashly, for the ragtag mercenaries threatened to blow up a huge dam and industrial installations, leaving the town...
Boer and ex-Guide Peter Pienaar. who "could track a tsessebe in thick bush" (Buchan readers know what a tsessebe is*), turns out to be most useful in Green-mantle as a messenger. He slithers silently through Turkish lines and brings news of Turkish weak spots to the Grand Duke commanding the Russian forces. Because it is Buchan, the Grand Duke turns out to have hunted lions with Peter on the veld back...
...months the bush telegraph of Brunei had flashed the warning that deep inside the Delaware-size oil-rich British protectorate on the north coast of Borneo, a secret rebel army was rehearsing a revolt against the Sultan. Repeatedly, government officials dismissed the story as "another jungle rumor." But last week, in a brief, bloody rebellion, rumor materialized into fact, bringing the threat of a long, nasty guerrilla war in the steaming swamps and forests of the protectorate, and imperiling the prospects of the Malaysian Federation...
...Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?" from Walt Disney's movie of The Three little Pigs. But since this song is still copyrighted and would have to be paid for week, the expense was avoided by using instead the folksong "Here We Go 'Round the Mulberry Bush", which is in the public domain...