Word: bushed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dust particles. Scientists are hedging their bets by establishing another camp on Kenya's Lake Rudolf, near Loiyengalani. Even more primitive than some of the sites in Mauritania, the village is accessible only by small planes or by Land Rovers on a two-day trip over rutted bush roads...
Hungate got to tinkering at the piano one day and in 15 minutes plunked out a ditty he calls Down at the Old Watergate. Based precariously on the English tune Down at the Old Bull and Bush, Hungate's composition was recorded by the Democratic National Committee, and for six weeks anyone calling a certain Washington telephone number could hear...
...GEORGE BUSH, 48, successor to Dole, is an attractive politician who was out of politics (as U.S. Ambassador to the U.N.) when Watergate burst, but is hurt because he is party chairman now. He might recoup by returning to Texas to run for the governorship...
...after his TV speech, the President strode solemnly into a meeting of his Cabinet. The members of his official family rose as one and applauded him. "I know that the American people are with you," said Secretary of State William Rogers. Added Republican National Chairman George Bush: "I want you to know that Republicans everywhere are strongly supporting you." White House Counsellor Anne Armstrong, the highest-ranking woman in the Administration, spoke up: "The people understand and appreciate what the President is doing...
...front of a live audience), and the camera is placed so close to the dancers that any illusion of reality is lost. As a result, in La Sylphide about a Scottish lord who falls in love with a wood nymph), as the camera glides coyly behind a plastic bush and peers out at Nureyev in white lipstick and kilt, nostrils flaring, the effect is more like a parody of Brigadoon than serious, classical ballet. In The Sleeping Beauty, it is grossly unfair to Lynn Seymour that the camera is close enough todistract the audience's attention from her accomplished performance...