Word: bushed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...during their 40 years of wandering in the wilderness. The pilgrims apparently assumed that by this time next year the Sinai would again be under the control of Egypt, and they might be denied access to the site where, according to Exodus, God spoke to Moses from a burning bush...
...started walking into the desert, looking for any slight rise of fall in the land, or any bush over seven inches high, or any other sort of sleeping place. I climbed over a barbed wire fence and headed out across some farmer's land, my flashlight the only light for miles and my breathing the only sound in the night. Except for the mooing which I heard after about a mile--soon followed by the sound of cows running across my path about 40 yards ahead...
...station in Gallup, where two Mexicans in a pickup truck let me ride in the back and either watch New Mexico fade away backwards, or, if I turned around, to watch the driver's t-shirt, which contained the local folk wisdom of "Four Wheelers Eat More Bush...
...Howard Baker that they would like to start organizing for him, but Baker is now concerned with winning re-election by a big margin in Tennessee. The moderates are ready to support Ford, but if he decides not to run, they are prepared to back former CIA Director George Bush...
...from fallen columns. He sketched indefatigably, on occasion even having himself suspended in a rope sling to get the vantage point he wanted. In his etchings, Piranesi embellished and sometimes even reconstructed the ancient structures. He gave the ruins themselves infusions of light, spared no climbing vine or sprouting bush. He often filled his foregrounds with bustling groups of peddlers, fish wives and beggars, whose vitality contrasts with the crumbling architecture...