Word: bushed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...displays and, on the stroke of midnight, a 101-gun salute. The South African flag was lowered; in its place was raised a banner of blue with a diagonal orange stripe and an inset of a leopard's head. In Mmabatho, the new capital carved out of the bush, the crowd roared its approval as President Lucas Mangope, head of the new government, declared that "at last we are no longer helplessly at the mercy of the arbitrary arrogance of those who until this hour trampled our human dignity into the dust...
Dried seaweed can often make an excellent substitute for tinsel on your "personalized Xmas" tree or you-know-what bush...
Four successive CIA directors-James Schlesinger, William Colby, George Bush and Turner-have considered the Operations branch to be bloated and in need of paring. In a post-Viet Nam retrenchment ordered by President Nixon, Schlesinger chopped 750 Operations employees. Colby and Bush passed on to Turner a plan to cut another 1,400-roughly 30% of the branch-over five years. Turner reduced that cutback to 820, but is trying to win a reputation for efficient management by carrying it out in just two years. Insiders in the agency insist that the dismissal list has now surpassed...
...Transvaal town of Heidelberg, "who believe they can bring South Africa to its knees [long pause] with a mandatory arms boycott [pause]. I tell them [long pause]they have another guess coming." The audience went wild. A National Party worker, standing 6 ft. 6 in. in his bush boots, pounded the shoulder of the spectator next to him. "Man," he shouted, "this is the man! This is the Churchill of the platteland...
...George Bush said the case "should have been dismissed." William Colby said that "Mr. Helms was trying to keep a secret as he was supposed to" under presidential direction and was caught in a change in which "American intelligence is going to operate under American law." Energy Secretary James Schlesinger insisted, "It is a shame that Dick Helms should have been in court at all. It would have been a national disgrace had the outcome been more severe. He should treat the episode like a dueling scar-it underscores his service to his country...