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Word: tracker (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1943-1943
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Australians call the bush-haired natives "Abos" or "Boongs"; the complex, almost telepathic process by which they trail missing men is "blacktracking." Soon after U.S. troops arrived, two soldiers took a furlough to go hunting, and got bushed. A tracker turned them up in jig time after 400 white soldiers had scoured the area in vain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR: Blacktrackers' Magic | 6/7/1943 | See Source »

...Takes Over. Instructions are usually given in the crudest of pidgin English. If a plane is known to be down in the bush an officer may order: "Charlie No. 2, you all along go find a motor-car-run-along-sky come down that way." (The number distinguishes this tracker from Charlie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR: Blacktrackers' Magic | 6/7/1943 | See Source »

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