Word: bushings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...honor of the occasion, Mrs. Hilles planted a pycorantha (flaming thorn) bush in the garden. Mildred P. Sherman, Dean of College Relations; Mrs. Jordan; and Mr. and Mrs. Carleton Granberry, the architects who designed the buildings, each provided a shovelful of dirt...
...when we settled down to work a week later at a small youth center in the bush country, we began to experience difficulties tourists and passers-by never face--difficulties which, in their own way helped to make Crossroads Africa a rewarding experience...
Working together there in the bush country we seemed to have little to talk about. It surprised me that the Congolese didn't question us about America, but my own questions ceased their steady flow as I became increasingly leary of offending my hosts. We held discussions every second week in which the students of one country proposed a topic for general discussion. But these were characterized by a lack of enthusiasm. Clearly the Congolese did not want to talk politics--they were particularly reluctant to discuss their government's fragile political set up--but no other topic seemed...
Next day, as Sergeant Duarte and his men were laying out red markers in a field for a supply airdrop, Viet Cong snipers fired from the bush. The first bullets whizzed by within an inch of Duarte's head. He hit the dirt and, on signal, his Rangers began an enveloping movement that soon silenced the guerrillas. "Just the way they were taught in training," said Duarte proudly. "They're brave men and good soldiers." But he is both baffled and grudgingly impressed by the Communist enemy. Says Duarte: "The Viet Cong have the initiative. They also have...
Intended as a sort of African Queen on wheels, the film tells how a poor young Irishman (Boyd) and his Corsican bride (Greco), who despite her poverty slinks around in a little something by Maggy Rouff, run a truck full of beer through the West African bush. The plot grinds grimly from one boring breakdown to another-a roadblock, a snapped shaft, a flash flood-until the heroine, after fifty minutes of mishap, says, "Whew! I never thought we'd make it." They didn...