Word: bushed
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Mailed Profits. To take advantage of the mail statute, the prosecution needed only to prove that the U.S. postal service was used to further a fraudulent act. Former mayoral Press Secretary Earl Bush, for example, was nailed for neglecting to reveal his ownership of an advertising company that held major contracts with O'Hare International Airport. Bush's $202,000 in profits from the company were mailed...
...plane, they remained dissatisfied and agitated. Early next morning, a fierce war cry brought Figueiredo rushing out of camp. As he approached Comprido, the Indian leader, he was fatally struck in the chest by two arrows. Before the skirmish was over and the Indians had retreated back into the bush, three other government officials lay dead...
...important as imaginative writing. Creamer has compiled every scrap of information available, from the early Baltimore days to the Babe Ruth Days held for him as his retirement, dispelling a slew of misconceptions as he goes along. He has gotten comment from many of Ruth's mates from the bush leagues up through the majors and there are times when you think he had the whole 1927 Yankee team wired for sound...
...Year? Euell Gibbons, who has taught us to beat inflation by eating every damn bush and berry in our own backyards...
...bomb planted in New Street in the tax office." The warning was instantly passed on to the police, and patrol cars raced to the area. A quick check at the tax office revealed nothing. Moments later, at 8:20 p.m., a vicious explosion ripped through the Mulberry Bush, a pub beneath the rotunda that was jammed mostly with young people, turning it into a nightmare of burned and dismembered bodies, moans of pain and screams of panic...