Word: bushed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...election eve, Africans poured out of the bush and down from the hills. Some lit campfires in the chilly night as they waited for the polls to open at 6 a.m. A 103-year-old man walked the night through to cast his vote at Visanza. and then collapsed. The results could scarcely have been more humiliating to Sir Roy. Although Banda had been expected to win the 20 seats contested in the lower roll, no one had been prepared for his runaway popularity. He swept 99% of the African vote. And even in the upper roll, the Asian voters...
...rewards are slim. Traveling seven months of the year, working seven-day weeks, he is paid a starting major-league salary of $7,500, can work up to a top of about $18,000. But for all that, ex-ballplayers, would-be ballplayers who never got beyond the bush leagues, and fans with the hankering and the nerve to brave the insults and the perils of umpiring keep the majors well supplied with raw stock. "It's an unnatural life," says Umpire Augie Donatelli, who came out of the Pennsylvania coal country and took up umpiring after washing...
...have replaced them with artificial blooms to eliminate bare spots in their landscaping. One suburban Dallasite mixed a real and an imitation wisteria vine. "In the summer you can't tell one from the other," he says, "but it causes some questions in the winter when the artificial bush is still blooming...
Just for Insurance. Gizenga's team might well have been defeated in Parliament had Moise Tshombe allowed his delegation of seven Senators and eight Deputies to attend the session in Leopoldville. But Tshombe, between bouts of bush fever, was more interested in sowing discord at home and abroad. Imprisoned for two months by Kasavubu's central government, he had won release by promising Strongman Joseph Mobutu that he would merge his 11,600 army, officered by 634 Europeans, with that of the central government. Once back in Katanga, Tshombe assured his Cabinet that the agreement was only...
Casual Kazoo. Last week, fresh off the road, Hirt was packing them in at the Pier 600 Club on Bourbon Street, where his success began. A huge (6 ft. 2 in., 300 lbs.), bush-bearded man, he stands on the bandstand, his trumpet like a toy kazoo in one hamlike hand. With his other hand, he sketches out a casual beat. Then he may break into a surprisingly agile buck and wing and lead his combo (trombone, clarinet, drums, bass, piano, trumpet) into a searing chorus of Down by the Riverside. Snarling, growling, shivering into a remarkably clean vibrato...