Word: bushing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bechuanaland, Seretse Khama, 34, was still the chief. Last week, as a charter aircraft flew Seretse back from six years' exile in Britain, the Bamangwato, with their wives and children, crowded the airport at Francistown by the thousands. Many had trekked for days through the parched African bush to be there in time for his arrival. "Our chief is home again!" they screamed as the aircraft touched down and the returning exile emerged to greet his Uncle Tshekedi, whose complaints about Seretse's marriage to a white woman (still in London but soon to join her husband...
According to J. Douglas Bush, professor of English, Murray "had a considerable share in the guidance of the Tutorial Board in English" when it was begun...
...applications for career posts in the foreign and civil service have fallen markedly. And within the Foreign Service, according to Senator Alexander Wiley, ranking Republican on the Foreign Relations Committee, 97 percent of the officers feel that morale in the Service is poor. A leading scientist, as well, Vannevar Bush, has warned that our defense effort has been impaired by uncertainty and distrust arising from security restrictions--notably from revulsion at the fate of J. Robert Oppenheimer...
...Douglas Bush, professor of English, who was on leave last spring when the English Department began procedures to change the Latin requirement, wryly noted, "The more Latin people know the better. . . . But that's true of any subject, I suppose...
...necessary not only to keep abreast of Canada's economic and cultural growth but to anticipate and stay ahead of that growth," said White. "It is not enough to have correspondents in the centers of population; more and more significant news is being made out in the bush, in mining towns, in tough, hard-to-reach areas where men are digging, farming, lumbering and gathering the riches of a rich land...