Word: bushed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bush leaguer among modern poets, I'd like to thank TIME for its article on poetry [Mar. 9]. The quotations are wonderful. Your final paragraph implies that poets have deliberately exiled themselves from the human race. If schoolteachers-who give most Americans their one and only experience of poetry-could be persuaded to ignore the 19th century with its artificial diction and clumsy constructions-and give their classes the poetry of today the human race could rejoin the poets...
Immediately, 800 rebellious Congolese appeared from the bush, aimed their rifles at the intruder. "Since I was outnumbered." he recalled, "there was only one thing to do-advance." But when one of the mob jabbed an arrow in his back ("Quite low on my back, actually"), Lawson wheeled around, punched the assailant in the nose. For some reason, this started the other Congolese roaring with laughter, and before long Lawson and Father Jules Darmant of Belgium, sole survivor of the mass murder, were flying back to Leopoldville...
Handsome Profit. For Del Webb, who holds 46% of Webb Corp. stock, prosperity was slow in coming. Born in Fresno, Calif., he quit high school, became a bush-league pitcher until typhoid fever knocked him off the mound. Webb moved to Phoenix on doctor's orders, took up carpentry. Not until he was in his 405 did Webb get his big opportunity. He formed his own construction company, grew rich during World War II building military bases. After the war, Webb kept right on winning Government contracts, also moved into a variety of civilian enterprises, bought a share...
...record 246,368 plurality in 1958. Last year Ribicoff, as President Kennedy's Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, hardly had time to breathe Washington's miasmic air before Connecticut Democrats were begging him to come home to run this year against Republican Senator Prescott Bush. As of last week, Ribicoff had agreed to just that...
With the Pilgrims in mind, Solarin hied off to the bush to start Mayflower School. Until the boys finished the first housing, the Solarins slept on the schoolroom floor and the boys on the school porch. Since then each new class has built its own dormitory. Also blossoming is academic quality: Mayflower is one of the few schools in Nigeria that make biology, chemistry and physics compulsory. And now the students include girls-an innovation in Nigeria, where women rarely go beyond primary school...