Word: bushing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...College mathematics team won the William Lowell-Putnam competition for the third straight year, L. E. Bush, director of the Mathematics Association of America, has announced...
...Eisenhower's ideological coattails were of decisive help in only three U.S. congressional races (Hartford, Conn., Jersey City and Wheeling, W. Va.) and one U.S. Senate contest (Prescott Bush's Connecticut victory...
Village & Bush. Africa's riches, such as they were, flowed down effortlessly to the traders on the coast. But the fact that, beyond a trickle of gold and ivory, the marauding chieftains of the interior had only human bodies to offer in trade was evidence of the real poverty of the people within-an ill-fed, disease-and fear-ridden race. To the African tribesman, whatever his ancestry or point of origin, the realities of life were pretty much the same all over the land. They consisted primarily of the village and the bush-the clearing in the forest...
Great areas of the land they settled in are the same today as when they found them. In the whole vast area, there are less than 400 miles of asphalt roads. Such railroads as exist bull their way through the bush in short, fitful spurts. But with startling frequency, in what was yesterday only a wilderness, such modern cities as Salisbury, Lusaka, Nairobi and Accra hive and hum in a fury of 20th century commerce...
White Man's Ways. Middle Africa is still a black man's land where even in the most populous areas of white colonization the Negro outnumbers the European by 12 to 1, but though life in the bush goes on as it has for centuries, the white man's way has filtered in some measure into every corner...