Word: bushed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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F.D.R. received conflicting counsel from various advisers: Scientist-Administrators Vannevar Bush and James Conant, Danish Physicist Niels Bohr, War Secretary Henry Stimson. But the President, without telling any of his aides, concluded with Winston Churchill that the second option was the wiser. The two solemnized their agreement in a secret aide-memoire of a conversation at Hyde Park in September 1944: "The suggestion that the world should be informed regarding Tube Alloys [British code for the bomb], with a view to an international agreement regarding its control and use, is not accepted." Concludes Sherwin with characteristic understatement: "The Anglo-American...
...have a figure who can contribute muscle to their cause. Some critics say that Neves is "all action and no brains." He gained acclaim during the African colonial wars as a tough and brutal soldier who liked to jump out of helicopters to fight alongside his men in the bush. His political views are something of a mystery. "Some are saying that he just likes to drink beer and chase girls," said one official last week. "But he will have to be considered on many key decisions from now on." In the near future those decisions will most likely...
...only outsiders had stayed out," observed a Portuguese businessman in the Angolan capital of Luanda, "this might have remained a low-level civil war in the bush. But now everybody's in, and the thing is beyond solution." That seemed to be an accurate appraisal last week, as Angola was engulfed in civil...
...economic repression by the 108,500 Creoles (blacks and mulattoes), most of whom belong to leftist-influenced parties supporting Prime Minister Arron. Joining forces with Surinam's 63,000 Javanese, the Creoles took control of the preindependence assembly in 1973 elections. The state's 40,000 Bush Negroes−descendants of escaped slaves who live tribally in Surinam's jungles−have always preferred dealing directly with the Dutch, and distrust the Creoles. Another ethnic group consists of 10,000 largely apolitical indigenous Indians...
...deliriously for fish curry. Ananga gives her what she has, placing it right near the girl's hand: roots torn from the ground. But the girl dies, eyes open, without reaching out. A child, who has been watching and waiting for hours, comes out from behind a bush and car ries the food away...