Word: bushed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pine Manor team came into the Radcliffe match with 4-1 victories over LaSalle Junior College and Boston College, as well as a 3-3 tie with Brandeis. The Manor's coach Judy Bush said that she had lost some players to the Pine Manor field hockey team...
Died. Prescott Sheldon Bush, 77, former U.S. Senator from Connecticut (1952-63), and father of U.N. Ambassador George Bush; in New York. A longtime confidant and golf partner of Dwight Eisenhower's and a banker by training, Bush was an authority on Government finance and the economy. Despite his lack of seniority, he wielded considerable and conservative influence on the Banking and Currency and Joint Economic committees...
...dropped a company of paracommandos into the northern Ugandan town of Gulu. Apparently he got lost during the night and was forced to land at the Kilimanjaro Airport. The plane was found the next morning, tires flat, fuel tank empty; the pilot and his troops had disappeared into the bush, unharmed but also unsuccessful. The rebels had also counted on large numbers of soldiers from Uganda's well-armed 12,000-man army joining in the rebellion. They were wrong...
...flat, barks commands to his secretary, who will come in an hour early the next morning to type them up. Says Leontyne Price: "Just when you think Adler is finally holed up in his office, he will turn up in the chorus or pop out from behind a bush to tell you your train is a foot too long." A short man with an advancing paunch, soft, silver-gray hair over the collar, and kind, blue, bespectacled eyes, Adler can be ultra-suave when kissing a board member's wife, making a courtly progress through a drawing room...
...father was watching, how Hughes once rescued a kleptomaniac aircraft executive from imprisonment for a theft of Oreo cookies, and how Hughes reluctantly went swimming in the nude with-of course-Ernest Hemingway. The imaginary Hughes had originally barged in on Hemingway in Sun Valley, introduced himself as a bush pilot and taken the novelist "for a spin" in his B-25 bomber. Later, "fed up with everything," he went to see Hemingway in Cuba but confessed his identity. "And, well, his attitude changed, and he began to talk about money...I didn't want Ernest pumping me about...