Word: bushing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rotting corpses, noisome reminders of Mussolini's sordid victory, littered the Ethiopian bush. It was treacherous country at best, full of crocodiles and hostile tribesmen-certainly no place for an Ital ian soldier to go wandering. But the lieu tenant had a bad tooth. He had to get to an army dentist, and a short cut through the bush would cut his traveling time in half...
...driven by forces beyond his control. But his conscience worked against him, carried him into a feverish world where he became convinced that his victim had given him leprosy. When his careful inquiries about the disease aroused a doctor's suspicions, he took off into the bush again, fearing the army would clap him into an isolation ward...
...Innocent. The Short Cut retells an old existentialist moral tale. In it, every man is a hell unto himself, enslaved by uncontrollable events, victimized by his own exaggerated moral interpretations of them. After weeks of living in the bush, The Short Cut's hero drags himself back to camp only to. find that nobody has heard about his disease, nobody has reported the shooting of the native girl, and everybody, including himself, is booked for home...
...maneuver was centered around the Alaska Highway, the one road in the Northwest by which an aggressor force or a defending Allied army could travel. At night, troops had to leave the road to bivouac in the bush in their nylon tents and down-filled sleeping bags. But most of the transport was roadbound, an easy target for air attack...
...soon moved from the radio bush league of Baltimore to an NBC staff announcer's job in Washington. One morning, speeding along Riggs Road to the Congressional Airport for practice at flying a glider, Godfrey had a head-on collision with a truck. He lay in a strait-jacket of bandages and casts for five months. For two years he could not bend his knees. He still walks with a slight limp...