Word: bushing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trained anthropologist who wrote (1938) a first-rate study of his people, Facing Mt. Kenya, Kenyatta is a devotee of Red magic. He spent the '30s in Moscow as a student-guest of the Kremlin, returned to Kenya after World War II. now heads a chain of 135 bush schools which spread anti-British propaganda and uphold old barbaric rites (e.g., female circumcision...
Family Background: He is the leader of the 41st generation of the Hashemite family, founded by the Prophet Mohammed. For 37 generations the family was a slumbering bush-league dynasty. Then Feisal I (Feisal II's grandfather) fought against the Turks with T. E. (Seven Pillars of Wisdom) Lawrence in World War I, dealt deftly with the British and emerged as founder and first King of modern Iraq. He died in 1933. His brother Abdullah with British subsidies made a state out of arid Jordan. An assassin killed him a year...
...weeks ago in the Hilton, at almost any hour of day or night, one might have run into a brass band, a fire siren or a bush-league opera soprano straining for high C, but this time the hoopla was relatively restrained...
...challenging situation." Adams, a Harvardman ('32) and investment banker, got Raytheon into fighting trim, soon stepped on to the bridge as executive vice president. Four years ago Laurence K. Marshall, who had founded the company in 1922 with the help of M.I.T.'s famed Scientist Vannevar Bush, retired as president, and Adams took over. Through Belmont Radio Corp., a Chicago subsidiary acquired at war's end, he had already put Raytheon heavily into television, turned out 100,000 sets before Korea cut back production and made Raytheon a war baby again...
...Year after year, Congress refused to meet an obligation that Roosevelt had contracted in his most offhand executive manner without consulting a single member of the Senate or House. Year after year, Tacho ponied up $30,000 a month to keep the road from going back to bush. This year Assistant Secretary of State Edward G. Miller told the House committee: ". . . The terms of an executive agreement . . . will not be honored in full until the road . . . is finished from San Benito to Rama, and until a survey is completed from Rama to El Bluff [on the east coast]." Relenting...