Word: bushed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...BUSH Atlanta...
...Reader Bush is not so salty as he thinks. A full-rigged ship and a schooner are two things. But of late years so many Gloucester fishing schooners have been built "bald-headed"-that is, without topmasts or topsails-that to distinguish the few which still carry all their rigging, it is expedient to speak of full-rigged schooners. A centipede may have anywhere from 38 to 400 legs...
...rupees-Bush shirt for uniform, and sun helmet...
Pete DeCenzie manages Des Moines' Casino Theater, where customers pay 20? before 1 p.m., 30? before 5 p.m. and thereafter 40? to see second-rate movies and bush-league burlesque ("Midnight Show Tonight . . . Red Hot Thrills . . . Adults Only"). Last week Manager DeCenzie was full of woe. Said he: "I had no idea. . . . I certainly was surprised. ... I was shocked to death...
...surf. Private Taylor's major had advised him to have a greeting ready for the Liberians, so he had prepared a statement which he recited to himself as they rocked and roared ashore. Wet and bedraggled, he leaped out on a desolate beach on the edge of the bush, marched up to the only Liberians in sight. They were half a dozen coal-black native boatmen who had come to help the U.S. troops unload. Said Private Taylor: "Liberians! We are here to join hands and fight together until this world is free of tyrannical dictators...