Word: bushed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fact that overseas "you're not the 19th fund salesman calling on a client." But it is also due to the doggedness of I.O.S.'s global salesmen. One flew into Portuguese Guinea to sell a prospective client, learned that his quarry was out in the bush, signed up four others before trekking into the bush after the first man. He bought. Another salesman lectured the Addis Ababa Rotary Club on mutuals, at meal's end had even the waiters trying to buy in. A salesman in Italy was less successful; Gangster Lucky Luciano died three days before...
...foreign capital; hydroelectric plants and factories are going up, while foreign consortiums are preparing to tap Angola's oil and mineral resources. But the Portuguese keep such tight control over the use of foreign funds that many investors are scared off. New hospitals are being built in the bush, and bulldozers are plowing through Luanda's disgraceful slums, preparing new housing projects. A crash program to build new schools should double Angola's school population by 1963. Fortnight ago, the Portuguese government agreed to the opening of Angola's first university next October...
...Andrews evidently thinks he is being terribly clever in the manner of Ionesco when he makes the central character of his entertainment an idiot baby with two heads. When he has its distraught parents dance around it to the tune of "Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush" played on a xylophone, however, he is thought of as "terribly clever" only by those warped individuals who think that perversion treated as a slap-stick comedy is meaty intellectual fare...
...sign of weakness. The novel ends on a note of hope, from Ruark's point of view. One of the big African politicians gets a good dressing down from a colonial and finally recognizes that he should have stayed satisfied with his primitive life in the bush. "We are fast becoming a people of half-white, half-smart, half-civilized spivs and scoundrels and loafers and whores," he confesses...
...nominated, 337 to May's 317. Puffing contentedly on a black pipe, Alsop dismissed the rift in the party, said: "I'm a pretty good patcher." Exit. The long count pushed the convention into an unscheduled third day to select a candidate to succeed Republican Senator Prescott Bush, 67, who had an nounced only four weeks ago that he did not have the physical strength to seek and serve another term. Immediately...