Word: bushed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Opoku Adu, "the Bush Kangaroo" from Nigeria, dominated the long and triple jump, leaping 23-ft. 12-in. in the former and 49-ft. 3 1/4 in. in the latter. Harvard freshman Bennett Midlo looked strong as he notched second in the long jump. Unfortunately, Midlo might have pulled a hamstring in the 60-yd. dash, an event which an emotional Joe Salvo captured for Harvard...
...members, however, are interested in improving their knowledge of history. "We're a group of people who like to play games," David Bush '79, society treasurer, said last week...
...Tazara wound across virgin bush, its gleaming China-forged rails resting on immaculate beds of crushed stone. The 300 bridges, 19 tunnels, concrete retaining walls, culverts and sidings amounted to an awesome engineering feat. Even the hundreds of footpaths that crossed the tracks were neatly marked (in English) with big railway-crossing signs...
...abrupt halt; it had killed a young giraffe that had wandered out of the savannah. An hour was lost as the crew replaced a broken brake hose, while passengers crowded around the carcass to gawk and hack off chunks of meat. At Mkushi, one of the many Zambian bush towns that have been revitalized by the railway, we waited for two more hours under a broiling sun. Our engineer and conductor lost an argument with station controllers over whether our express or a lumbering local should have priority on the single track...
...doing overt freedom fighting anymore," Margaret Bush Wilson, president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), said yesterday at the Law School...