Word: bushed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...somehow be solved by what Queen Elizabeth II has called "these personal contacts which mean so much." Even so, the issue is certain to leave a bitter aftertaste and could accentuate the centrifugal forces at work within the Commonwealth. The Africans are deeply embittered at what Zambia's bush-jacketed Kenneth Kaunda labeled a moral decision to "support apartheid with arms...
...transcendence and his unstoppable monologues on everything from sex to Homeric mythology, is a memorable caricature: beside him, the Beat heroes of '50s fiction look not merely anemic but ignorant. Gabriel, simply, is romanticism cubed: "Scrape your brain bare, like a battery electrode, expose your nerves like a bush of copper. Get ready to sing or die. Or maybe both! And all this out here, these roofs and smokestacks, will turn into light-and you'll see right through them-because they'll no longer be necessary to support the illusion of our lives...
There are so many police and soldiers. Every other street corner, literally. The worst are the Special Forces trained Rangers, with their bush hats and their spanking silver grease guns. I've only seen American soldiers twice-at the American Embassy and once whipping around the corner in a jeep...
LAWRENCE J. BUSH Claymont...
...opening the door to increased oil imports from foreign producers. What is more, Texas-always a key state politically-is vital to Nixon's strategy for 1972. Connally helped Democrat Lloyd Bentsen win a Senate seat this year from Nixon's hand-picked candidate, Representative George Bush. Nixon failed to carry Texas in either 1960 or 1968; the state's 26 electoral votes could be the difference between winning and losing in 1972. By luring Connally to Washington, Nixon could win a strong protagonist or at least neutralize a potential antagonist in Texas Democratic politics. Said...