Word: bushed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...George Bush, LL.D., U.S. envoy...
Even as President Nixon was announcing the mining of North Vietnamese ports, the U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., George Bush, moved to inform the Security Council. According to prescribed protocol, such formal notification is made to the Council president, but this month that regularly rotated position happens to belong to the U.S. representative, namely Bush. Bush ceremonially addressed his letter and then delivered it to himself, informing himself that the U.S. had a legal right to take action under the U.N. Charter's doctrine of "collective self-defense...
...given orchestral concerts in 17 different towns and villages, traveling over 7,000 miles in a DC-3. Other ensembles from the University of Alaska have played in villages the Seattle people never heard of. The Seattle Symphony is welcome back any time, but don't patronize the bush residents...
Milhouse got away with it that year, but after that World Series game he was never worth a damn again, and I must say it didn't surprise me. Like I said, he spent a lot of time in the bush leagues, and it made him resentful. He was always trying to be one of the guys, but he had this sick smile like a snake in the grass. The guys were willing to give him a break because he was winning ball games for us that year, but he was never a real Yankee...
Milhouse must have thought he was God or something out there because he was coming in with that bush-league fastball of his on every other pitch. If I had been thinking straight I would have yanked him, but like I said, you couldn't hear yourself think in that park. Besides, baseball is a funny game with lots of that psychological stuff involved, and I figured that Milhouse was just using some of that old Yankee magic...