Word: bushing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...once the letters column of the New Statesman bristled with arguments pro & con Freddie Ayer. Did his philosophy really lead to fascism? One professional philosophizer who sided with "Oxonian" was bush-bearded C.E.M. Joad. To accept Ayer's assumptions, wrote Joad, would be to agree "that there is no meaning in the universe . . . that it means nothing to say that Beethoven is a greater musician than Mr. Sinatra . . . that all talk about God ... is twaddle...
When SESP came to Cametá in 1944, the town's 550 families were getting their drinking water from the silt-laden Tocantins River. Their only plumbing facilities were the jungle bush behind their rickety shacks. Cametá had no doctor, and there is no record of how many Cametenses died each year from dysentery, hookworm, malaria and typhus, but these and other communicable diseases accounted for 55% of all deaths in the Amazon region which includes Camet...
Like a Board. A lean French Canadian taxi driver, John Lecomte, 36, joined up with his brother-in-law, Einer Frykberg. They left Frykberg's hardware store to his wife, drove Lecomte's taxi in as far as they could, and headed into the bush. Bartender John York hiked 15 miles in & out, then found that he had forgotten to note the numbers of his claim tags. He had to go through it all again...
...Province, killing people and destroying property, the administrator of the province asked Pretorius to take on the job of extermination. Naturalist Sir Harry Johnson and two famous hunters had already given their opinions: the terrain and the danger made it impossible. "For a satisfactory fee" Pretorius went into the bush and did the job, killing as many as five...
What is now unofficially dubbed the Trans-Canada Highway (see map) starts in Halifax, follows hard-surfaced roads through the Maritimes, Quebec and eastern Ontario, then loops over graveled roads into the bush before it straightens out on to patchily paved roads through Winnipeg, Regina and Calgary. It humps up over the Rockies at 5,327 feet, and goes on to Vancouver...