Word: bushed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ambassador George Bush introduced a resolution calling for a ceasefire, an immediate withdrawal of armed personnel by both sides, and the placement of observers along the borders. The proposal won eleven votes, with two abstentions (Britain and France) and two nays (the Soviet Union and Poland). It was the veto by the Soviet Union's Yakov Malik, who blamed "Pakistan's inhuman repression" for the conflict, that killed the measure...
...rule against revealing private conversations in public. During the same debate, Baroody, who strongly supported the U.S., managed to call for a vote at precisely the wrong moment, allowing the pro-Peking countries to muster their forces before the U.S. was ready for a showdown. Exasperated, U.S. Ambassador George Bush described Baroody as "an unguided missile...
...first to admit in his best hangdog manner that it is too late for a lifelong mutt to become a high-strung thoroughbred. As he says in one of his lines in Prisoner: "Miracles don't happen when you're 47. When Moses saw the burning bush, he must have been...
...Assembly loudly applauded Chiao's 20-minute speech, and many delegates said that they considered it commendably moderate, at least by the usual standards of Peking invective. Even U.S. Ambassador George Bush said that it was nothing worse than "a forceful exposition of views we cannot agree with and cannot support...
...Washington, however, officials felt that some reply had to be made, if only to prevent Peking from assuming that it could go on to harsher polemics without being challenged. After a full day of consultations with the White House, Bush belatedly issued a new statement scolding Chiao for "intemperate language." While pledging that the U.S. would make "a serious attempt to narrow differences," he said that it was "disturbing" to see the Chinese "firing these empty cannons of rhetoric...