Word: bushed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...discussed energy and economic policies with members of his staff. He chatted briefly with congressional leaders about his personal finances. He appointed nine new ambassadors. Several evenings, he slipped unannounced out of the White House-showing up at dinner with Daughter Julie and David Eisenhower, with Republican Chairman George Bush and with a group of Administration appointees...
Because of Watergate, many qualified candidates are hesitating to run as Republicans. "There isn't that old drive to win," says a Midwest G.O.P. state chairman. "There is no rush of new candidates." National G.O.P. Chairman George Bush had considered running for Governor of Texas next year, but a glance at the polls convinced him that his party was too weak to put him over...
...entrenchment of the military in the islands has done little to improve the state's unique tropical environment. The Army conducts war games in the lush Pupukea hills, only five miles away from a residential subdivision. Island fire officials last summer blamed the military for the several bush fires in that area...
During the post-war period, the period of Harvard's (and MIT's) growth and the generally increasing affluence for the middle and upper classes, if not for Cambridge's ethnic and black working class majority, the City Council has been the focus of local bush-league Spiro Agnews. The Council decides zoning changes, hence to a great extent, the scope and character of Harvard's growth. And, with speculators vying for land in the Harvard-MIT strip for commercial and apartment development, there has been a lot of loose money available for political influence. The interests of the working...
Archaeologist George Michanowsky first came upon the strange, incomprehensible markings in 1956. Inscribed on a large flat rock in a remote bush region of Bolivia, they seemed to be connected somehow with an annual festival held on the site by Indians who gather from hundreds of miles around for several days of drinking and debauchery. Yet no one, including the Indians, could offer any explanation for this yearly orgy, which seemed to have its roots in the dim pre-Columbian past...