Word: bushed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Charles Bush, a first-year M. B. A. student and co-chairman of the AASU, said Thursday that he would have no comment until after Fouraker makes a statement Monday...
Doermann, who wrote his doctoral dissertation here on University financing, will be the first executive director of the Bush Foundation, a Minneapolis charity trust with $200 million in assets...
...Last night on Hill 30 it rained rockets. The medics tried to move the wounded but for two hours no one dared move from the bunkers," the boy said nearly breathless as he laid down his dusty M-16 rifle under a bush, and grabbed a tin cup filled with water...
...cover the world with round-the-clock broadcasts, including areas where missionaries are forbidden. California-based Wycliffe Bible Translators carry the command to imaginative lengths. They train in a test "village" of primitive huts in the jungles of Mexico, then are sent to live unaided in the Latin American bush for six weeks. In order to get the Bible to many primitive peoples, they actually create a written language out of dialects that are only oral, first developing an alphabet, then a dictionary. In areas where the problem is simple illiteracy, an ecumenical Protestant effort nicknamed Lit-Lit (for World...
...failure. In 1940 the editor of the Scientific American wrote Willy Ley, prophet of space travel, that the notion of a rocket bomb was "too farfetched to be considered." In December 1945, even though Germany's V-ls and V-2s had already terrorized London, Dr. Vannevar Bush, head of the Office of Scientific Research and Development, said that intercontinental missiles would not be possible for a "very long period of time." The American public, he impatiently contended, should not even think about them. Only last December, Dr. Bentley Glass, a geneticist and the retiring president of the American...