Word: bushed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...experience what Thoreau called "the tonic of wildness" and to prepare for reporting this week's cover story on Alaska, TIME's San Francisco Bureau Chief Jesse Birnbaum spent several days alone in a bush-country cabin twelve miles outside the village of Skwentna (pop. 12). In his wooded retreat, Birnbaum, a city-bred New Jerseyite, was reading by kerosene lamp when "suddenly the entire cabin began shaking. I grabbed the .30-30 Winchester that I had brought along, unlatched the door and peered out. A huge black bear was standing there upright-he must have been...
...Anchorage Reporter Joe Rychetnik, a Chicago-born newsman who left Oregon for Alaska eleven years ago after his big-game haunts were invaded by too many wild-shooting, heavy-drinking riflemen. Now he finds himself crowded again and guesses he will "either have to move out into the bush or get used to people-there are just too many." New York Correspondent Alan Anderson interviewed both U.S. and Canadian ecologists. The story was written by Philip Herrera, researched by Nancy Williams and edited by Robert Shnayerson...
...Texas' George Bush, 46, son of former Connecticut Senator Prescott Bush, is an even bet to defeat Lloyd Bentsen for the seat that Liberal Ralph Yarborough lost in the Democratic primary...
Pifer puts it this way: "When morning comes with the soldiery abed and tangled in a heap, the bathtub gin drained, leaving only a rosy residue of secretaries in half-slips, when the muddy colonel in the geranium bush is dragged indoors by dawn's first Negro to sleep it off in the vestibule under a smashed grandfather clock, when first brightness crashes through ripped drapes into the dehydrated eyes of snockered politicos, lobbyists in underpants, Pentagon sources and the secret police, when the hands that guide our collective destiny reach to kill the screams of the alarm clock...
...found tranquillity could disappear quickly in a moment of national crisis. Only three weeks ago, a small band of Simba rebels seized the town of Kalemin, formerly Albertville, on Lake Tanganyika. The Simbas held the town for 24 hours before they were driven back into the bush by Mobutu's army...