Word: bushed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...This is dangerous," Bush told 150 graduate Young Republicans meeting at Harkness Commons. "It might under-mine the confidence of our allies and might lead the Rusians to attack merely by mistake...
...Prescott Bush (R., Conn.) last night charged the Democratic party with "trying to make the United States appear a second-rate power...
Democratic attempts to ring false alarms are insincere, he said, since Democratic majorities in Congress have dominated legislation in the last six years. "If they are sincere, why didn't they do something about it?" Bush asked...
...meaning inspired in part by the Bible: green for youth, violet for age and wisdom, gold for prophecy. And the window itself is an intricate design of symbols whirring through the cosmos. To the left are the glowing symbols of the Eternal Light, the Flames of the Burning Bush, and the twelve tribes of Israel. In the center is the Tree of Life crowned by the seven branches of the Light of God. The Jewish symbol of the palm becomes a kind of ladder made up of the Hebrew character "shin," the first letter in one of the words...
...ground suddenly burst into shooting flame. Lloyd leaped off his horse, breaking his leg as he jumped to safety over an embankment (the horse burned to death). The story made a lasting impression on his son, and not merely because it was reminiscent of Moses and the burning bush. Young Lloyd, studying law at the University of California, took a chance geology course and concluded that the burning earth meant oil under the knoll. He was right. By 1925 he had made about $2,000,000 from oil-lease rights, decided to invest in property in Portland, where the family...