Word: bushed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Congo's town politicians bickered and battled, few of them had a thought for a greater tragedy unfolding in the remote bush of South Kasai. There 300,000 pathetic Baluba tribesmen, hurled out of their homelands last year by the tribal fighting, huddled homeless and hungry in a harsh, inhospitable region where few crops grew. Now, unless massive help arrived soon, many of them faced death from sheer starvation. Nearly all the children suffered from the dread protein-deficiency disease called kwashiorkor, which shriveled limbs, swelled bellies and fouled the blood. Already, several thousand adults and children have died...
...Andrew, eleven months. The holidays over, Elizabeth and Philip set off on a historic tour of Britain's former Indian empire. First stopover was in Cyprus, where no British monarch has set foot since Richard the LionHearted (in 1191). Over an orange squash, the Queen chatted cordially with bush-bearded President Archbishop Makarios, so recently a mastermind of the Cypriot revolt against the Crown. Flying on to New Delhi, Elizabeth was greeted thunderously by some 1,000,000 Indians who caught their first glimpse of a British ruler since Elizabeth's grandfather, George V, came to India...
...sons of a polygamist chief, Nyerere attended Uganda's Makarere College, where he was baptized a Roman Catholic. Later he took a master's in history and economics from Edinburgh University, returned to the bush to teach in a mission school. By his fiery oratory, he soon welded Tanganyika's 113 politically inarticulate tribes into the monolithic Tanganyika African National Union party. Unlike the Mau Mau in adjoining Kenya, Nyerere has modified his racist stand, now insists: "The struggle against colonialism must not be confused with racialism. Both the color of a man's skin...
...Sundowners. When not upstaged by dingoes, wombats, endless flocks of sheep and Peter Ustinov, Stars Robert Mitchum and Deborah Kerr are appropriately knockabout as a shiftless couple beating the Australian bush...
...Toast, No Butter. Now and then, of course. Dr. Lenard suffers a slip of the stylus. Forgivably enough, he fumbles a number of Milne's choicer puns ("ambush" as a bush, "issue" as a sneeze), and the great gag about Piglet's grandfather. Trespassers W. somehow just lies there in Latin. Furthermore, panistostatus cum butyro, though verbally correct, makes no sense at all in the Roman context as a translation of "buttered toast." According to Dr. Frederick L. Santee, a leading U.S. Latinist, the Romans had no toast and no word for it, and though they...