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Word: bushing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Souvanna Phouma, is the half-brother of Communist Boss Prince Souphanouvong, and many of the handful of educated Laotians who make up the government insisted that the whole thing was just a family affair. Last week the family affair was settled. Sarong-clad Laotians from villages and the deep bush along the Mekong streamed into the capital of Vientiane. They had cheers for Souvanna Phouma, cheers for Souphanouvong, and smiles for everyone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LAOS: Perilous Course' | 12/2/1957 | See Source »

Faculty members have long complained among themselves about the way WIU treats its athletes. They get juicy "state scholarships," live in three dormitories of their own, are allowed to come and go as they please, play on Saturday afternoons against such bush-league teams as Southern Illinois University and Central Michigan College. But it was not until last fall, when Star Halfback Bobby McCue and two teammates confessed to burglary, that the situation at Western Illinois came out in the open...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Football, Anyone? | 12/2/1957 | See Source »

...seen the goal get turned, but fans in Detroit's Olympia Stadium agreed on an explanation: while they were watching the Red Wings organize their attack, Faille had put his shoulder to the net and shoved. "It's a bush-league trick!" stormed Red Wing General Manager Jack Adams. It may well have been. But it saved the game, and National Hockey League President Clarence Campbell had to admit that there is no rule against it. There soon will be, he promised, while French Canadian Goalie Faille still played the bewildered innocent: "Fasten? Unfasten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Unattainable Goal | 11/18/1957 | See Source »

...that a major medical mystery involving a new and invariably fatal disease had appeared in the wilds of New Guinea, TIME sent Brisbane Correspondent Fred Hubbard after the story. A 1,400-mile flight to Port Moresby was only the first step. After that. Hubbard had to go by bush plane over forbidding razorback mountain ranges to a remote patrol post where a white man's back is still an inviting target to a savage spearman. At Okapa, Reporter-Photographer Hubbard got his story and pictures. For the results, see MEDICINE, The Laughing Death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Nov. 11, 1957 | 11/11/1957 | See Source »

...Murambodoro's father was frightened. What kind of son, he wondered, had he put into the world? The boy had begun to talk unusually early, and the father finally concluded that voodoo must be to blame. Throwing mother and child out of his hut, he disappeared into the bush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Littlest Messiah | 11/11/1957 | See Source »

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