Word: bushing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This pleasant vision was described by John Aubrey, a country gentleman, a sort of bush-league Pepys or Plutarch, of 17th-Century England...
Haile Selassie, whom the British now call Highly Satisfactory, pushed on into Ethiopia last week with a new weapon -propaganda. Even in the Ethiopian bush this proved to be a potent factor, for the area into which the Negus was pressing was Gojjam Province, long a hotbed of native revolt against the Italians. Haile Selassie's organ of propaganda was a newspaper written in Amharic, called Bandarchen ("Our Flag"), bordered with the Ethiopian Imperial colors, mastheaded with the monogram of the Lion of Judah, and bristling with nationalistic slogans. Sixty camels, with armed escort under a British officer, carried...
...corruption by jumping from the top of City Hall on Christmas Eve. When the fake is about to be disclosed, the girl gets her job back by suggesting that an appropriate John Doe be hired and interviewed daily. For this purpose the paper engages a gawkingly uncouth but handsome bush-league baseball pitcher who is out of work. John Doe's press and radio utterances, written by the girl, are naive but manly sermons on Love Thy Neighbor, and they touch local and then national hearts...
Always a model son, Don Juan has been a proper princeling. He dutifully served as a cadet in Britain's Royal Navy, dutifully married a bush-league Bourbon princess, begat two daughters and a son. His only independent act to date was to volunteer for Franco's Army and to be firmly escorted over the border by the General's minions...
...principal square: "Welcome, pals! Come right in-the town's yours." An Aussie soldier hauled down the Italian flag and hauled up his broad-brimmed hat in its place. Another changed the name of the main street from Via Mussolini to Via Ned Kelly-after a famous bush bandit from New South Wales who in his raids on towns defied death by dressing in 97 pounds of iron armor...