Word: bushing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...victims from the low-hanging branches of forest trees, slashing their backs and necks with razor-sharp knives fitted to their fingers like claws. In Tanganyika, however, lions are man's most prevalent enemy. There the fashion trend is toward lion skins. Some 40 years ago in the bush of Mkalama District, the private stable of lionmen trained and kept by one ambitious "sorcerer" (a practitioner of black magic as opposed to a witch doctor, who deals in white magic) committed an estimated 200 murders in a single three-month period...
Like a Dog. Except for a brief outbreak in 1946, when 103 cases of leonine murder were reported, Tanganyika's lion-men were relatively passive until late last year when a nve-year-old girl was dragged into the bush near Dodoma, killed, disemboweled and dissected. Soon afterward, local justice learned the reason. A native woman had a grudge against her son because he had thrown her second husband's bow and arrows out of his hut (a grave insult). With the support of her sister, she sent a messenger to hire a lionman from a.sorcerer...
Hynek, director of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory's satellite-tracking program, suggested that the post be filled by someone with the stature of Dr. Vannevar Bush...
...Bliss Perry. Perry, who had made his entrance into the field at about the same time as Wendell, was quite different from his bearded colleague. Possessed of a slow deep voice, he had "nothing of the showman about him--he didn't need to have." He had, Douglas Bush recalled at Perry's death in 1954, "bright blue eyes, a slow smile, a warm and selfless concern with literature and things humane." Perry wrote one of the first favorable biographies extant of Walt Whitman, and edited the Atlantic Monthly for almost ten years...
...elaborate system of polyethylene tubing running to a central collecting vat in the sugar house down the hill. Occasionally, just to preserve the true spirit of Vermont sugaring, they hitch up one of the few surviving teams of oxen in the territory and strike out into the bush to collect the syrup by hand. Sugaring lasts about a month and helps to break the monotony of cold and frustrating isolation that envelopes the winter weeks...