Word: bushing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...because it is quite hopeless for them to create a scene. I should like to tell my young friends that October 23 is to be a working and school day. I shall come personally to the university to see that it is." With that, Marosan and Kadar, two bush-league traitors kept in power by the Red army, flew-off to Moscow to dine with their masters in the Kremlin, and then on to Peking for the Communist celebration season...
Last week, convinced that the time had come "to meet the people and answer my critics," Sir Roy set off on a five-day tour of "enemy territory"-the bush country of Nyasaland, whose 2,500,000 Africans (there are few whites there) are vociferously anxious to get out of the federation. At one of his early stops in southern Nyasaland, scene of bloody African riots in the days immediately preceding federation, Sir Roy wowed his audience by declaring "I am an African like yourselves. I was born here in Africa." Said one of his audience: "We like Welensky because...
...Bobbettes; Atlantic). A bestseller all about a suave-moving gent named Lee who is the cynosure of roving female eyes: "One, two, three Look at Mr. Lee Three, four, five Look at him jive!" Sung with a frenetic enthusiasm that suggests an itchy beater flailing the bush for quail...
...into Johannesburg to work for the white man-Basutos, Bechuanas, Xhosas and Zulus live more or less segregated from one another under a government policy designed to preserve tribal instincts and to maintain the fiction that all native labor is transient and will some day return to the bush...
Among the most prized of African workers are the Zulus. Fiercest fighters in the African bush, they work mostly as houseboys for white city dwellers, and for years lived in rooms atop the apartment houses. In recent years, thanks to the government policy of clearing out their "locations in the sky," more and more Zulus have been forced into the suburbs. Confronted by the bullying Tsotsis, the Zulus stuck together, fought back in the trains, and often ambushed the Tsotsis themselves in the streets. The Zulus had a few gangsters of their own. Sometimes they made mistakes and attacked...