Word: bushed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Around the Y. But the central fact of Nigerian politics is not a clash between townsman and bush dweller. It is, instead, racial and religious rivalries pointed up by the mighty Y that is stamped across Nigeria's face (see map) by two great rivers-the winding Benue that pours from the cloud-ringed Camerounian mountains in the east, and the majestic Niger that comes in from the west to join the Benue in a single mighty stream running south to the Gulf of Guinea...
...explaining Harvard's stand, Watson stated, "We feel that anything to do with admissions should be handled through admissions offices. It's wrong to have coaches out beating the bush. The role of coaches is to stay at college to coach and teach...
...week's end, as relative peace temporarily settled on Léopoldville, news from the boondocks indicated that the U.N. could use all the help it could get. In the bush country of Katanga province, where they ambushed and killed nine Irish U.N. soldiers a fortnight ago, savage Baluba tribesmen last week hacked 113 of their native enemies to death, carving some of the bodies up for cannibal feasts. To its edgy troops the U.N. passed out the not very reassuring instructions that "if [poison] arrows are removed within two seconds, they cause only temporary discomfort...
...covering the underdeveloped nations of the world. The raw material for the estimated $30 million annual business often results from a closetcleaning housewife's call to a ragman or the Salvation Army. The castoffs may end in a Baghdad bazaar or a peddler's Land Rover making bush-to-bush sales in Tanganyika-with a Brooks Brothers suit for sale at $5, Arrow shirts at 50?, a Saks dress at 30?. Last year U.S. exporters shipped over 200 million lbs. of used clothing around the world for profit. And though many a nation bans secondhand imports to protect...
...Casey became a pretty fair outfielder in the National League (lifetime batting average: .284), hit a pair of key home runs for the Giants in the 1923 World Series. But he was at his best when he played the game for laughs: popping out of a manhole in a bush-league outfield to catch a flyball, giving the bird to jeering Dodger fans by raising his cap in salute and releasing a sparrow. In nine National League seasons as manager of Brooklyn and Boston, Stengel never finished higher than fifth; Brooklyn even paid him not to manage by buying...