Word: bushed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...George Bush, chairman of the Republican National Committee in the dark days of 1974, claimed that since Nixon said he was innocent, he (Bush) had to support that contention. It was Vice President Gerald Ford who, not long before Nixon's house collapsed, told the nation: "I can say from the bottom of my heart, the President of the U.S. is innocent and he is right...
Convinced that the N.A.A.C.P. needed some fresh leadership, Board Chairman Margaret Bush Wilson, 57, a St. Louis lawyer, and other directors began to act independently of him to remedy what they saw as fiscal mismanagement and sloppy record keeping. Earlier this year Wilson's "Majority Caucus" stripped Wilkins of the power to hire and fire top assistants. Today, the search committee of the N.A.A.C.P. is not consulting with Wilkins on his successor...
...black women and supplies. They built their own villages at the head of river rapids (where intruders could be sighted during portage) and raised crops far from the villages so that Europeans would be unlikely to find them. English Mercenary Captain John Gabriel Stedman, who fought against the bush people from 1772 to 1777, wrote of one military maneuver: "This was certainly such a masterly trait of generalship in a savage people, whom we affected to despise, as would have done honour to any European commander, and has perhaps been seldom equalled by more civilized nations...
Tilting Coffin. The most striking aspect of the bush society is its remarkable stability. Two U.S. blacks from Harvard, Neurobiologist S. Allen Counter Jr. and Admissions Officer David L. Evans, have spent five years studying the 5,000 surviving bush people of the interior and have produced a one-hour documentary film, The Bush Afro-Americans of Surinam and French Guiana...
...bush people speak a language that combines Dutch, English, French, Portuguese and six West African languages. Much of their design and decoration, including sculpture, chairs and dugouts hollowed from felled trees, resembles that of West Africa. In fact, two Gran Men who recently traveled to West Africa at the expense of the Surinam government were able to recognize certain shrines and could communicate with Africans though the two cultures have had no contact for centuries...